I Tried To Bootstrap A Startup
Two years ago I started a business for quantified hiring for tech companies to hire engineers. Last Thursday I shut down the main server that runs candidate submissions. And nobody screamed.
In 2017, the consultancy I co-founded (Serokell) had trouble finding good candidates, and we were resorting to headhunting. That would put strain to delivery of projects for our customers and while we weren't failing at it, we had to put in contingency plans to make sure that if there is lack of performance, we can still deliver.
But there was a better problem to have beyond the horizon we were yet to face! Since all the companies I make are mission-driven, Serokell was no exception. Serokell's mission was to make well-typed functional programming languages default choice for new software projects. We wanted to make this true for the whole software industry!
To achieve that, we started a compiler department which was tasked with contributing to Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Unsurprisingly, we became quite popular!
