Not entirely related to the product, since I am midway through the signup but something about the Auth that I thought you should take a look at right away; more so when you say Pinterest for "programmers" :)
+1 to codelitt's suggestion. We've been running our stack for Tenreads (http://tenreads.io) on DO since the last year now. Wouldn't say we are running a high throughput flow for our backend/web apps, but with our core pipelines, DO has been a really good choice with, to quote codelitt again, "sweet spot of cost and performance".
PS: We've been facing issues with certain regions of late, but the team is fairly responsive and helpful with getting fixes through.
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Technologies: Python, NodeJS, React/React Native, MongoDB/PostgreSQL, Machine learning.
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