Let's make this thread useful instead: Please enlighten the HN community at large: Tell us how you'd build instagram, what your tech choices would be and why Python is the "worst technology choice".
(If this goes well maybe you'll get an email from Mike Krieger with the subject line "Here, you do this".)
(If this goes well maybe you'll get an email from Mike Krieger with the subject line "Here, you do this".)