matijash

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   by matijash 5y ago

   Yeah, it definitely isn't a standardized term. I've also been hearing "hard tech" but then got a feeling it has more and more been used for hardware projects, although I dont think that that was the original idea. We act
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   by matijash 5y ago

   Thank you!
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   by matijash 5y ago

   Wow, so glad you found it helpful! Yes, our compiler is written in Haskell and currently generates React/Node.js code. I will keep Hack-NY in mind, thanks for sharing!
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   by matijash 5y ago

   The main idea with this is to build validation by showing that somebody else did similar/analogous thing and succeedeed. E.g. "What Y did for Z, we will do the same but for X". And then the key point is in explaining how it i
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   by matijash 5y ago

   No worries, appreciate it, but I didn't feel attacked! Also learned a new word (corpspeak) :)
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   by matijash 5y ago

   Thanks! Haha yes, it definitely felt like it at times. Fundraising really took me out of the product pretty much completely, so my co-founder was keeping the fort there and keeping us afloat. At first we were fundraising together, but then
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   by matijash 5y ago

   Funnily enough, but it actually didn't feel that way at all. Investors definitely communicate and share their dealflow a lot (a lot of vcs told us they heard about us from others and wanted to meet us, although we mostly had no's.
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   by matijash 5y ago

   yeah, definitely. The advice we often got was to either go fundraising full-on or not at all, because it's very hard without that momentum that takes time to build up (as you could see on our chart, in the end we had even more interest
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   by matijash 5y ago

   this is helpful, thank you!
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    by matijash 5y ago

    At that time we were pretty much fundraising full-time, and given there were only 2 of us and the product was at early stage we couldn't really do a meaningful push on traction, so we mostly focused on the updates on the fundraising si
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    by matijash 5y ago

    yeah, "Fundraising lessons learned post-YC" prob would have been better, thanks.
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    by matijash 5y ago

    I am not a native speaker, so this definitely might not even be a proper word :). Some discussion about it here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/396140/is-there-...
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    by matijash 5y ago

    thanks a lot for the info!
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    by matijash 5y ago

    sorry about that, seems like HN is doing some URL expanding which messes it up, this was the original URL: https://wasp-lang.dev/blog/2021/11/22/fundraising-learnings
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    Our fundraising learning post-YC(wasp-lang.dev)

    79 points by matijash 5y ago|39 comments
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    Wasp-Lang (YC W21) Is Hiring Founding Engineer

    1 points by matijash 5y ago
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    by matijash 5y ago

    We are building a DSL for building full-stack web apps (in Alpha rn) - https://wasp-lang.dev/ . It is designed to be stack agnostic, but currently we support React & Node.js.
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    by matijash 6y ago

    This is a great summary of the problem, upvoted.
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    by matijash 6y ago

    I like the "peeling off" strategy - starting with the monolith and adding microservices from the edges. I've been working on something that tries to make starting with a monolith in React/Node.js relatively easy. Still d
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    by matijash 6y ago

    thanks for the twin love, love the question! :) haha yes, we are not identical (although similar at first look) so no huge (fun) misunderstandings, but we have similar names and same initials so that caused confusion several times. Whenever
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    by matijash 6y ago

    just wanted to say I love the idea! Would definitely use it if it was available in Croatia :) Btw, how are you solving routing right now, any cool algorithms? :)
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    by matijash 6y ago

    oh wow, that's really great to hear! Would love to get more of your feedback once you tried it - feel free to join our Discord channel ( https://discord.com/invite/rzdnErX ) or email me directly at matija@wasp-lang.
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    by matijash 6y ago

    thanks for sharing, definitely sounds like an interesting combo! How is your experience with Hasura/Firebase, anything you found cumbersome?
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    by matijash 6y ago

    Get it now! The big part in our opinion is growing a community of people using Wasp for their projects - if we manage to do that, we'll definitely be motivated to continue, funding or no funding. We are of course motivated to build a b
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    by matijash 6y ago

    would be awesome to chat!
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    by matijash 6y ago

    thanks for your feedback and questions! yes, it (build-time reasoning) is also the most exciting thing for us, really excited to see what can be done. I also totally agree on being harder to debug, that is the challenge that comes with abst
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    by matijash 6y ago

    we are not totally sure yet (since we are now focusing on getting the project to the stable stage), but we think the most straightforward way would be to provide our own, "one-click" deployment/hosting service. On the other h
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    by matijash 6y ago

    thanks for the feedback, I agree having showcases is crucial for showing what can actually be built with Wasp. We ourselves built a copy of Medium with Wasp - feel free to see it deployed here ( https://wasp-rwa.netlify.app/
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    by matijash 6y ago

    we also have a DSL design channel in our Discord - feel free to join and start the discussion, we'd be happy to learn from you and also help if we can! https://discord.com/invite/rzdnErX
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    by matijash 6y ago

    thank you, that is what drove us too! But we also believe the key is in keeping integrations with the existing tech, e.g. React/Node.js so it is still possible to express more custom logic where it is needed.