.NET isn&#x27;t cool in the start-up world because of the pricing and licensing issues. You can happily start developing a PHP+MySQL application on a used 100 EUR ThinkPad: good free IDEs are readily available (if you even need one), no licensing headaches and can start hosting it with your nearby 20 EUR&#x2F;month web host with shell access.<p>Although the situation is changing for the better in the .NET world, the hardware cost, obfuscated licensing and pricing issues still remain. I had to buy an i5 machine with SSD and 16 GB of RAM to get the same development experience with VS2015 that I had with Netbeans on Linux with 4 GB of RAM. Also, a project in progress went for ASP.NET MVC 5 + Azure SQL on Azure and I&#x27;m afraid every day that we might get hit with some unexpected performance or insane pricing issues after the launch. Even the reddit thread on &#x2F;r&#x2F;dotnet wasn&#x27;t very encouraging with regards to that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;comments&#x2F;46rgf6&#x2F;do_you_run_a_startup_on_aspnet_whats_your_monthly&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;comments&#x2F;46rgf6&#x2F;do_you_run_a...</a>