Bootstrapping Ikarus Scheme
Published in 2015, this chronicle by @soegaard details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE 24 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 2 comments
It's worth noting that the author of Ikarus has written a tutorial so you can write your own compiler in Scheme.
This has been covered on Lambda the Ultimate: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1752 ↗
Ghuloum's Compiler tutorial in Scheme is quite good http://t.co/oOzo8sP6In ↗ and coding guide https://github.com/namin/inc/blob/master/docs/tutorial.pdf?raw=true ↗
In addition Nada Amin (of Strangeloop keynote fame) has completed the Compiler tutorial here: https://github.com/namin/inc ↗
URL changed from http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/3409/a-history-of-bootstrapping-ikarus-scheme ↗, which points to this.