I'm doing this tech side on my own, that's why Drupal 7 is a safe bet when starting out.
Your answer does point the way forward; let's see some real growth, then the team will make the tech choices!
Thanks again!
Okay, so I've been an avid Drupaller these past few years, and my startup runs on Drupal 7 with user referrals, membership site, activity stream, (facebook styled) statuses, and (twitter like) micro-blog, and Organic Groups among other modules. All of these modules are absent in D8, so D7.A few months ago, I was introduced to Python, and it simply blew me away. That prompted me to pay attention...
More like massively impressed! But, that's just by the experiment. The author(s) has/have made no effort to convert this into a workable proposition, barring a feeble mention at the end of how it could work.
Indeed, your work shows that it works rather well. In that case, why not get in touch with a dev, and you'll have an app running on these principles in next to no time!
Whether as proof of concept, or monetised, that goes way farther than a mere article that doesn't seem very much appreciated either. At least here on Hacker News, going by the number of likes.
Your article certainly deserves kudos, but there's so much more you're leaving on the table :(