My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

1. nuxt

   1 122 57,535 9.9 TypeScript

   The Intuitive Vue Framework.

   

   Thanks for reading!

   The web tech stack is actually one of my biggest regrets. It's a static site generator called Gridsome[0] that the maintainers abandoned about three months after I used it to launch the TinyPilot website.

   At the time I made the TinyPilot site, I was very excited about Vue, so a Vue-based SSG seemed great. Since then, I've come to find SPAs and most frontend frameworks to be way too much complexity, so I've moved away from Vue, but the TinyPilot website is still stuck on Vue 2.x and bootstrap-vue (which is tied to Vue 2 and Bootstrap 4).

   So, it keeps creaking along, but building the 100ish pages on the site takes about five minutes, whereas I think something like Hugo could probably do it in a few seconds. Plus, we get random runtime errors[1] that are pretty hard to debug.

   [0] https://gridsome.org/

   [1] https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/5800

2. InfluxDB

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3. Gridsome

   2 39 8,533 0.0 JavaScript

   ⚡️ The Jamstack framework for Vue.js

   

   Thanks for reading!

   The web tech stack is actually one of my biggest regrets. It's a static site generator called Gridsome[0] that the maintainers abandoned about three months after I used it to launch the TinyPilot website.

   At the time I made the TinyPilot site, I was very excited about Vue, so a Vue-based SSG seemed great. Since then, I've come to find SPAs and most frontend frameworks to be way too much complexity, so I've moved away from Vue, but the TinyPilot website is still stuck on Vue 2.x and bootstrap-vue (which is tied to Vue 2 and Bootstrap 4).

   So, it keeps creaking along, but building the 100ish pages on the site takes about five minutes, whereas I think something like Hugo could probably do it in a few seconds. Plus, we get random runtime errors[1] that are pretty hard to debug.

   [0] https://gridsome.org/

   [1] https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/issues/5800

4. glicol

   3 164 2,758 6.6 Rust

   Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

   

   This is a really informative and inspiring article.

   It hasn’t been 6 months (not 6 years) since I quit my full-time job as a Rust developer to start my own business.

   As time goes by, I can feel the pressure of mortgage and car loans, and I can also feel the care and pressure of my family.

   My original plan was to make an interface for Glicol (https://glicol.org), and to develop relevant hardware with firmware written in rust for school education.

   I sent some cold emails to VCs, but most of them got no reply.

   I also sent an email to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, offering to perform for children for free, but they didn’t reply for two months. I shamelessly sent it again, and someone finally replied with a rejection.

   Only one VC talked to me and thought that I should convince and validate a partner first, and he suggested that I go to an incubator.

   Very good advice.

   Later I learned that even Norwegian education startups skipped Norway and focused directly on the US market.

   People from the incubator also told me that it is impossible for Norwegian schools to accept new things independently.

   This is very enlightening to me because most of Glicol's visitors are indeed from the US. And it took me so long to discover this fact.

   But if I don’t start, I’ll never get past those six months.

5. faust

   4 57 2,783 9.5 C++

   Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis (by grame-cncm)

   

   Glicol looks very cool! Also check out Faust if you haven't (https://faust.grame.fr), another FP sound programming language.

6. overtone

   5 31 6,035 9.4 Clojure

   Collaborative Programmable Music

   

7. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

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