Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM other than Ruby
Published in 2011, this chronicle by @tianyicui 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 Web 2.0 Genesis (2007–2013)
COMMUNITY SCORE 58 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 17 comments
Rubini.us is looking like it's starting to gain a really solid community behind it. I'm looking forward to switching to it in the near future (probably if/when Heroku starts supporting it)
This article is making me wish could make CoffeeScript run within the Rubinius VM, and have access to the same objects and libraries of my Rails app.
Wish I had time to build that. Maybe someone smarter than me with some free cycles could take this project on :-)
Btw, here's a list of current features I forgot to link to in the post: https://github.com/bakkdoor/fancy/blob/master/doc/features.md ↗
I am seeing more people trying Rubinus VM to build languages / port languages: see https://github.com/vito/quanto ↗ for example.
Nice. It looks like the syntax is inspired by Javascript and Ruby.
A previous blog post on the Rubinius blog mentioned that they'll be talking about a Language Toolkit sometime soon.
I think the more accurate term is self-hosting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting ↗