HalcyonicStorm

Really great stuff! Cant wait to try it out in my harness!

I agree with a lot of this statement, but I would argue that this has been the case for a long time. See the giant list of social startups

I'm really sad that the ubuntu phone dream was never realized

Completely agreed. I’m a convention over configuration believer

It could also be that they might be sued for stating the real reason so they went with something that would be dismissed if it went to court.

Erlang is uniquely suited to chat systems out of the box in a way that most other ecosystems aren't. Lightweight green threads via the BEAM vm, process scheduler so concurrent out of the box, immutable data structures, message passing as communication between processes.

What's this built with on the frontend and backend?

Dawww thank you!

Ive been working in Elixir since 2015. I love the ecosystem and think its the best choice for building a web app from a pure tech/stability/scalability/productivity perspective (I also have a decade+ experience in Ruby on rails, Nodejs, and Php laravel, plus Rust to a lesser extent).

I am however having trouble in the human side of it. Ive got a strong resume but I was laid off in Nov 2024 and Im having trouble even getting Elixir interviews (with 9+ years of production Elixir experience!). Hiring people with experience was also hard when I was the hiring manager. It is becoming less niche these days. I love it too much to leave for other ecosystems in the web sphere

Coding will only be held as high value if its a product led growth company. Its a cost center otherwise.

I definitely want to become an owner and learn about the business. I've even conceived and executed projects to improve the bottom and top line revenue. That being said, as a developer in a small business, the thought is that I'm too expensive an employee to not be coding even if I had a lot of impact on my own initiatives. The thinking is that a lot of people can think about strategy but very few people can code so I get pigeonholed into just executing. This has been my experience at multiple startups at various stages of their lifecycle.