Re:HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
by toyg on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:04AM
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> something like dead simple self hosted email
That's not the infrastructure he means. An email server has to be coded in a language / runtime; who develops those pieces? That's what Maciej means by "infrastructure": the languages and runtimes everybody else then uses to build sexy products.
Re:HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
by BruceM on Friday March 20, 2015 @09:14AM
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Agreed. And within that space, given 2 hours, I can probably come up with a list of 30-40 projects which could be done for budgets between $5k and $100k that would have meaningful impact on multiple organizations.
That's not the infrastructure he means. An email server has to be coded in a language / runtime; who develops those pieces? That's what Maciej means by "infrastructure": the languages and runtimes everybody else then uses to build sexy products.