Make sure you don’t hire engineers with “shiny object syndrome”.
What is that?
It’s when an engineer gets easily distracted by every cool new technology, framework, or library that comes out and wants to include that into what their working on just because it’s the “cool new thing” everyone is using.
A lot of Silicon Valley engineers have this problem.
It’s ok to play around with new tech, but you need to make sure it doesn’t distract you from business objectives.
Engineers should be using technology that is widespread, proven in production environments and has mature documentation. This will increase speed of development while reducing bugs and maintenance work.
It has happened over and over again in which a cool new library is introduced and then after a few months, it’s abandoned by the authors because it was just a “side project” and they don’t have time to “maintain it”. This screws you over and creates massive tech debt.
If your product is full of new and unproven tech, you are setting your business up for failure.
Either because you’re going to waste more time rewriting everything and/or when you hire more people, they have no experience with the new tech and will get frustrated.