Pick a stack you can actually finish
Ask for the boring choice, on purpose.
I want to build: <one sentence> My situation: - Experience: <none / some HTML / I can read code> - I want to deploy to: <no idea / a cheap host / my own server> - Budget: <£0 / a few pounds a month> Recommend ONE stack. Not a comparison table — one recommendation, and say why it beats the obvious alternative for someone in my situation. Bias hard towards fewer moving parts over "modern". Then list every account I will need to create before I write a line of code.
Ask for one answer. Given a menu, models will hand you five options ranked by popularity, and you will spend the afternoon choosing instead of building.