Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
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Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
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#2The JavaScript tooling ecosystem is fragmented, bloated and slow. Rome is the best - and currently only - bet to fix this. I’m excited!
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#3The JavaScript tooling ecosystem is fragmented, bloated and slow. Rome is the best - and currently only - bet to fix this. I’m excited!
Why do you think this is the only bet? What about things like Snowpack, Vite, and Esbuild?
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#4The JavaScript tooling ecosystem is fragmented, bloated and slow. Rome is the best - and currently only - bet to fix this. I’m excited!
Why do you think this is the only bet? What about things like Snowpack, Vite, and Esbuild?
Those are all great bundlers/dev servers but they aren’t as ambitious as Rome. Rome aims to be the one tool that handles everything: compiling, bundling, testing, linting and everything else.
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#5> Together, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $4.5 million in seed funding, led by A.Capital Ventures and OSS Capital.
VCs fund startups which has the potential to 100x their returns right? How is that going to work here? How will they monetize a javascript library? Will we have an IPO for a javascript library? Or are they betting on a big tech company to acquire a Javascript library for 100s of millions of dollars? I am confused.
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#7It’s a difficult, painful problem - meaning there’s an opportunity. Sebastian has the grit to deliver. What’s the business model?
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#8It’s a difficult, painful problem - meaning there’s an opportunity. Sebastian has the grit to deliver. What’s the business model?
Supplemental services that integrate with the tool. Think code quality monitoring, error reporting, and core enhancements like a remote cache. There's a lot we're going to be experimenting with.
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#9> Together, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $4.5 million in seed funding, led by A.Capital Ventures and OSS Capital. VCs fund startups which has the potential to 100x their returns right? How is that going to work here? How will they monetize a javascript library? Will we have an IPO for a javascript library? Or are they betting on a big tech company to acquire a Javascript library for 100s of millions of dollars?…
Healthy skepticism is good. Dev tools are hard.
There are hundreds of open source companies - many making gobs of money. Not all - many fail. This team has name recognition and a few successful projects already - Babel and yarn. I can see it working out.
JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages. Millions of developers. With solid execution, there are monstrous markets here.
Re: Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
#10> Together, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $4.5 million in seed funding, led by A.Capital Ventures and OSS Capital. VCs fund startups which has the potential to 100x their returns right? How is that going to work here? How will they monetize a javascript library? Will we have an IPO for a javascript library? Or are they betting on a big tech company to acquire a Javascript library for 100s of millions of dollars?…
It's not a "JavaScript library" it's an entire toolchain. In the same way that `git` generated billions of dollars worth of value in the form of companies and productivity, Rome will do the same. Possibly even bigger.