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

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)

I don't get it: Actors are at the core of Scala concurrency model, and are expanded for distributed programming through Akka for instance. To me it'd be the other way around: you'd have to develop Actors in Haskell, don't you? Or maybe you don't mean the same thing by 'Actor'? 2011/12/19 David Pollak

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Perez wrote:

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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.

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-- Ivan

On 18 December 2011 18:42, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gracjan Polak wrote:

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Hi all,

The question 'How hard is it to start a technical startup with

Haskell?'

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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...

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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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