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A comment on Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapped, B2B SaaS in 2024. Parent comment

Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by hansonkd on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:00PM (#39310052)
The reply's asking if you need 100 devs, might not realize this article was about building SaaS apps.

Having worked at multiple unicorn+ SaaS products, the product feature demands are significant.

Yes if you have one sole feature that you can pour all your engineering resources into like whatsapp delivering messages then it makes sense you might get away with 2 Elixir devs.

If you are working at a unicorn who just raised $250m in founding and now has to deliver 100 new features this year... well the elegance of the language won't help as much as you think.

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Re:Why Elixir Is the Best Language for Building a Bootstrapp... by namaria on Friday February 09, 2024 @05:48AM (#39313519)
Good point. There seems to be a strong correlation between fast growth, lots of money and technically unpleasant environment/stacks.

I'll take quality of life over money any day, but I realize I'm in an extremely small minority.

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