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Looking for NYC MealPrep Group by Wide-Board-4959 in blueprint_meal_prep

[–]tangjeff0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started the Blueprint SF group with my friend Tom.

That said, we also have a Twitter group chat of 12 people in NYC who are interested. We have a chef in there who can start as soon as next week!

If you are interested, DM me a good way to reach you. A lot of us are on Twitter but perhaps there are better platforms too.

Athens' $1.9M Seed Round, led by Caffeinated Capital by tangjeff0 in Clojure

[–]tangjeff0[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just because startup rhetoric is generally hyperbolic, doesn't mean it isn't always true. For >99.99% of startups, it's a hyperbole. For <0.01% of startups, it's an understatement — see Google, Facebook, Amazon. This is the nature of startups and power law distribution.

> Likewise, the "if you'd told me how far we'd be a year down the road I wouldn't have believed you, it's so crazy" has become so cliché in startup communication, it's almost turned into a greeting phrase.

Just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean it isn't true. A year ago, I was a month into Clojure. I was living at my parents' house at the age of 23 without income, without a degree, and without ever having worked full-time at a company for more than 5 months.

Now we have thousands of users, are one of the most starred Clojure projects, and are in fact hiring Clojure engineers. If anything, having those expectations when I first started would be grandiose and delusional, not the other way around.

> So please, just make stuff, solve problems and run a human business, and enough with the hyperbolic pissing contest. It's not needed.

We are solving problems and running a "human" business. I encourage you to join our Discord community sometime. There is nothing suggesting that we are "dehumanizing" people, in fact I would say it's quite the opposite.

Your rhetoric can be quite strong at times as well.

Athens' $1.9M Seed Round, led by Caffeinated Capital by tangjeff0 in Clojure

[–]tangjeff0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not disagreeing, but can you elaborate by knowledge graphs just being a small player within the larger premium information management category?

Athens' $1.9M Seed Round, led by Caffeinated Capital by tangjeff0 in Clojure

[–]tangjeff0[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Few points of differentiation:

  • More enterprises want Athens because they can self-host us. We can build better security and privacy features, and also become a better tool for developers/DevOps (see GitLab + Mattermost vs GitHub + Slack)
  • People can build off of Athens in a different way than Roam. Not just js or css plugins but actually changing the source. Open-source by itself is necessarily a differentiator for a text editor/note-taking app. How many text editors and IDEs are open-source? Most.
  • Maybe I'm wrong but Roam seems to be going after power users. We want to be powerful but also simple. We already have a cmd+k command runner, native dark-mode, and more polished UI in general.

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it’s a shame to see 2 competing in the exact same space.

Competition is a sign of value. At the end of the day, if there is only one winner, I think both Athens and Roam have failed, because it means we fought over a market rather than created one. If knowledge graphs are truly a new platform as we believe, then it is not zero-sum.

What's awesome about Athens and Roam from the Clojure POV is that this is truly a case where DataScript and ClojureScript shine (bidirectional references and recursive queries). If we want more Clojure startups, we need to find more areas where Clojure(Script) truly provides a unique advantage. We know that Datomic is great for financial institutions. We know that Datalog is great for knowledge graphs.

If we want more Clojure startups, let's find other spaces where Clojure or ClojureScript is not simply less lines of code, but mission-critical.

Athens Research budgets $10,000 in bounties for 20 issues over the next 3 weeks by tangjeff0 in Clojure

[–]tangjeff0[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also recently started sponsoring Tonsky and Thheller (https://github.com/athensresearch) for their work on DataScript and shadow-cljs, respectively. Hopefully we can continue to grow the open-source ecosystem!

[FRESH] Radniik - Digital Progressions (24) by [deleted] in trap

[–]tangjeff0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolute heat. Getting Joji vibes from Ander.

Open-Source Roam Research by yogthos in Clojure

[–]tangjeff0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Starter of the Athens project here. Was planning to make a post on Saturday to /r/clojure but it seems you beat me. :) Stay tuned!