Great satire. But I have seen teams of incredible engineers doing amazing things perfectly and still go out of business because its not how amazing your engineering is, it's how amazing your product or service is to people who are willing to pay (or someone is willing to pay you).
I realize this is a joke, but regardless these days you basically need to spend ~25% of each year rewriting your app just to stay in security compliance.
>Had we had more funding, we would have taken the time to rewrite our app in Haskell instead.<p>So close yet so far. Given the funding you need to rewrite your app in BOTH Haskell and Rust. Then depending on which one is in favor at launch time you go with that and never mention the other one. Then you look like a prophetic genius company no matter which way the market turns.
If we take this satire more seriously then it's meant, which was the biggest mistake?<p>Lack of market research right? They should at the very least have done it post launch. Maybe more pre launch too?<p>I think many of the other ones might have been survivable?
It turns out that the startup was a hemp farm. The founders never communicated the vision with the developers and just let them run loose to see what they'd do.
I get that this is satire, but leave Rust out of it. Rust is blameless when it comes to bad business ideas and execution.<p>You shouldn't be scaring people away from a language that offers so much. Rust is not hard like all the dumb memes make it out to be. For startups where performance is vital (media, streaming), I'd argue it'll be indispensable [1].<p>The Rust bullying harms our community. We don't have the corporate backing of Go. Pick on something from Google or Apple instead.<p>[1] I wrote my media-intensive webapp, <a href="https://vo.codes" rel="nofollow">https://vo.codes</a>, in Rust and I'm quite productive.
'...Our incredible journey...'<p>I hope they were thinking of <a href="https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow">https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/</a> when they wrote this!