[Haskell-cafe] How hard is it to start a web startup using Haskell?

[David Pollak]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm actually trying to make a list of companies and people using Haskell
> for for-profit real world software development.
>
> I'd like to know the names of those startups, if possible.
>

I am building http://visi.pro on Haskell.  I am doing it for a number of
reasons:

   - Haskell is a mature platform that provides lots of goodies that I
   might otherwise have to write (like the goodies I wrote in Lift including
   an Actors library)
   - Haskell allows a lot of nice "things" that make building a language
   and associated tools easier (like laziness)
   - Haskell is a filter for team members. Just like Foursquare uses Scala
   as a filter for candidates in recruiting, I'm using Haskell as a filter...
   if you have some good Haskell open source code, it's a way to indicate to
   me that you're a strong developer.



>
> -- Ivan
>
> On 18 December 2011 18:42, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The question 'How hard is it to start a technical startup with Haskell?'
> >> happened a couple of times on this list. Sometimes it was in the form
> 'How hard
> >> is to find Haskell programmers?' or 'Are there any Haskell jobs?'.
> >>
> >> I'd like to provide one data point as an answer:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngbbp/haskell_only_esigning_startup_closes_second_angel/
> >>
> >> Full disclosure: I'm one of two that founded this startup.
> >>
> >> How are others doing businesses using Haskell doing these days?
> >
> > I don't run a startup myself, but I know of at least three startups
> > using Haskell for web development (through Yesod), and my company is
> > basing its new web products on Yesod as well. I think there are plenty
> > of highly qualified Haskell programmers out there, especially if
> > you're willing to let someone work remotely.
> >
> > Michael
> >
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