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<p>Folks, I apologize for being behind responding to Ur/Web GitHub
issues and so forth, but I've been distracted trying to kick off
an Ur/Web-based startup company. I figured that, nonetheless, I'd
try my luck here and see if anyone has any advice for us finding
early customers or in a few other dimensions.</p>
<p>I imagine, for this audience, I don't have to work too hard to
make the case that Ur/Web raises the abstraction level of web-app
programming significantly. As I developed <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://upo.csail.mit.edu/">UPO</a>
and applied it for a few medium-sized apps, I realized that the
abstraction level had gotten high enough that we should even be
able to build a GUI that lets laypeople design their own apps
without thinking like programmers. So we built that platform,
called Nectry. The way I'm thinking of it now is that it should
be the perfect way to help non-developer, business-oriented folks
within companies take advantage of all the local services, from
standard ones like Salesforce to the company's custom REST APIs.
Building blocks for all that can be provisioned, such that types
etc. guarantee that apps others build with them are secure. The
game is really helping nonprogrammers build full web apps with
dependently typed combinator libraries!</p>
<p>I would much appreciate hearing from members of the Ur/Web
community about any of the following aspects of our quest:</p>
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<li>Do you know anyone who might appreciate being an early adopter
of tooling to harness the business know-how of nonprogrammers
safely in do-it-yourself web-app development?</li>
<li>Would you or someone you know potentially be interested in
getting involved with our effort? We're open to remote work,
though we can't pay anyone yet. The most pressing roles would
be in engineering, applying expertise in advanced functional
programming and compilers; or a business-y role driving
discovery of early customers and fine-tuning of our model for
who we should be marketing to and how.</li>
<li>Do you know any investors who might resonate with the
technology and consider seed funding for an early-stage venture
just signing its first paying customers now?</li>
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<p>Thank you in advance for any leads!<br>
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