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We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by rainingcatndogs »

joosters wrote: post #33
marcinzm wrote: post #25

>Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead. So close yet so far. Given the funding you need to rewrite your app in BOTH Haskell and Rust. Then depending on which one is in favor at launch time you go with that and never mention the other one. Then you look like a prophetic genius company no matter which way the market turns.

Product idea: A program that makes your web app masquerade as any language that you choose! It rewrites and hides your .php extensions, and replaces error pages to make them look appropriate for the chosen technology stack. All the actual js is obfuscated & compiled to WASM to hide the shameful use of jquery/react/angular/vue/whatever is no longer the 'in' tool. You can switch technologies with the push of a button!

A "tech stack spoofer", that would be cool and it can have applications beyond that like for security by obscurity.

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by falcolas »

alangibson wrote: post #32
codeulike wrote: post #14

Publishing this on Google Docs is so passe, clearly should be on Substack or Ghost

It'd be way more popular is it was self hosted on Netlify using a static site generator

Haven't you heard? The pendulum is swinging back, and Wordpress is all the rage again.

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by ibraheemdev »

jonp888 wrote: post #20

I can't believe they didn't use Kubernetes for deployment. What a bunch of amateurs - no wonder their product failed.

They say that their product failed and they didn't even use Julia? They really had no idea what they were doing.

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by tyingq »

tyingq wrote: post #35
echelon wrote: post #26

I get that this is satire, but leave Rust out of it. Rust is blameless when it comes to bad business ideas and execution. You shouldn't be scaring people away from a language that offers so much. Rust is not hard like all the dumb memes make it out to be. For startups where performance is vital (media, streaming), I'd argue it'll be indispensable [1]. The Rust bullying harms our community. We don't have the corporate…

It's just a popular target, as in "Rust Evangelism Strikeforce" . Typically, it's a good sign when people start poking fun.

Oh, also, I liked this: https://imgur.com/noUdCET

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by dariusj18 »

alangibson wrote: post #24
coldcode wrote: post #16

Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are willing to pay (or someone is willing to pay you).

"People don't want drills, they want holes" - Guy that started a drill company who's name I forget

A businessman sells you the hole, marketing sells you the drill.

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by blast_hardchese »

cmpb wrote: post #18
colmvp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if you need a satire tag to realize this is satire, I don't know what to say.

I'm just saying, it took me until halfway down page two to realize it.

That's nothing, I still don't know it's satire.

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by nickelcitymario »

dariusj18 wrote: post #45
alangibson wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"People don't want drills, they want holes" - Guy that started a drill company who's name I forget

A businessman sells you the hole, marketing sells you the drill.

Can't tell if you're joking, but I think this is backwards?

Re: We Rewrote Everything in Rust, and Our Startup Still Failed

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Post by dariusj18 »

nickelcitymario wrote: post #49
dariusj18 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A businessman sells you the hole, marketing sells you the drill.

Can't tell if you're joking, but I think this is backwards?

I don't think it's backwards, though the term businessman might be swapped for something better.
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