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No strategic roadmap is ever going to tell you: "Build a $0-revenue JavaScript runtime and one day an AI company will acquire you"
by hedayet 11mo ago
No strategic roadmap is ever going to tell you: "Build a $0-revenue JavaScript runtime and one day an AI company will acquire you"
- supportengineer 11mo agoWell, that was the playbook in the 1999-2001 dotcom days.
- Windchaser 11mo agoWhich is probably why no one's going to recommend it these days ...but hey, things are different during a bubble.
- wmf 11mo agoHonestly that's probably the best play. Monetizing dev tools directly is a nightmare.
- ironmagma 11mo agoIt reminds me of hearing that music majors often do well in medical school. Want to go to medical school? Just major in music, duh.
- OkayPhysicist 11mo agoHa, Physics majors get the same talk about law school. It's just the selection bias of selecting for people willing to make hard pivots filtering out the under-achieving, go-with-the-flow types.
- westoque 11mo agoi really think this is part of the pitch deck for bun's funding. that a bigger company would acquire it for the technology. the only reason an AI company or any company for that matter would acquire it would be to: 1. acquire talent. 2. control the future roadmap of bun. i think it's really 1.
- mitchell_h 11mo agoI had the same thought when openai acquired rockset.
- pizlonator 11mo agoLots of strategists will tell you something like: "Build something that's useful and then there will be money". That's 100% what happened to Bun. It's useful (like really useful) and now they're getting rewarded