Folks, I apologize for being behind responding to Ur/Web GitHub issues
and so forth, but I've been distracted trying to kick off an
Ur/Web-based startup company. I figured that, nonetheless, I'd try my
luck here and see if anyone has any advice for us finding early
customers or in a few other dimensions.
I imagine, for this audience, I don't have to work too hard to make the
case that Ur/Web raises the abstraction level of web-app programming
significantly. As I developed UPO <http://upo.csail.mit.edu/> and
applied it for a few medium-sized apps, I realized that the abstraction
level had gotten high enough that we should even be able to build a GUI
that lets laypeople design their own apps without thinking like
programmers. So we built that platform, called Nectry. The way I'm
thinking of it now is that it should be the perfect way to help
non-developer, business-oriented folks within companies take advantage
of all the local services, from standard ones like Salesforce to the
company's custom REST APIs. Building blocks for all that can be
provisioned, such that types etc. guarantee that apps others build with
them are secure. The game is really helping nonprogrammers build full
web apps with dependently typed combinator libraries!
I would much appreciate hearing from members of the Ur/Web community
about any of the following aspects of our quest:
* Do you know anyone who might appreciate being an early adopter of
tooling to harness the business know-how of nonprogrammers safely in
do-it-yourself web-app development?
* Would you or someone you know potentially be interested in getting
involved with our effort? We're open to remote work, though we
can't pay anyone yet. The most pressing roles would be in
engineering, applying expertise in advanced functional programming
and compilers; or a business-y role driving discovery of early
customers and fine-tuning of our model for who we should be
marketing to and how.
* Do you know any investors who might resonate with the technology and
consider seed funding for an early-stage venture just signing its
first paying customers now?
Thank you in advance for any leads!
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