This narrative resonates personally with me. We bootstrapped Anvil in Cambridge (UK), and one of the most common reactions to a demo is "wow, this is actually a

This narrative resonates personally with me. We bootstrapped Anvil in Cambridge (UK), and one of the most common reactions to a demo is "wow, this is actually a real platform, deep enough to have answers to my follow-on questions". (Which is...kinda important for a programming tool.) Ironically, this response often comes from Bay Area-based startups with incredibly limited time/resources to produce a prototype, despite objectively huge amounts of "seed" or "pre-seed" funding - because prevailing salaries and cost of living make staying alive long enough to build it, let alone recruiting another engineer, a real stretch. No way would we have been able to build anything nearly so complete if we'd had an SFBA cost-of-living clock ticking behind us.