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No strategic roadmap is ever going to tell you: "Build a $0-revenue JavaScript runtime and one day an AI company will acquire you"

>>hedaye+(OP)
Well, that was the playbook in the 1999-2001 dotcom days.

>>hedaye+(OP)
Honestly that's probably the best play. Monetizing dev tools directly is a nightmare.

>>suppor+h2
Which is probably why no one's going to recommend it these days

...but hey, things are different during a bubble.

>>hedaye+(OP)
It reminds me of hearing that music majors often do well in medical school. Want to go to medical school? Just major in music, duh.

>>ironma+Eb
Ha, Physics majors get the same talk about law school. It's just the selection bias of selecting for people willing to make hard pivots filtering out the under-achieving, go-with-the-flow types.

>>wmf+T7
And you risk ending up like Postman or Insomnia, once beautiful software which is now widely hated by developers.

>>wmf+T7
Countdown till Astral is acquired?

>>hedaye+(OP)
i really think this is part of the pitch deck for bun's funding. that a bigger company would acquire it for the technology. the only reason an AI company or any company for that matter would acquire it would be to:

1. acquire talent.

2. control the future roadmap of bun.

i think it's really 1.

>>hedaye+(OP)
I had the same thought when openai acquired rockset.

>>hedaye+(OP)
Lots of strategists will tell you something like: "Build something that's useful and then there will be money".

That's 100% what happened to Bun. It's useful (like really useful) and now they're getting rewarded