<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:04 AM, Ivan Perez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com">ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm actually trying to make a list of companies and people using Haskell<br>
for for-profit real world software development.<br>
<br>
I'd like to know the names of those startups, if possible.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am building <a href="http://visi.pro">http://visi.pro</a> on Haskell. I am doing it for a number of reasons:</div><div>
<ul><li>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)</li><li>Haskell allows a lot of nice "things" that make building a language and associated tools easier (like laziness)</li>
<li>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.</li>
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-- Ivan<br>
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On 18 December 2011 18:42, Michael Snoyman <<a href="mailto:michael@snoyman.com">michael@snoyman.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gracjan Polak <<a href="mailto:gracjanpolak@gmail.com">gracjanpolak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi all,<br>
>><br>
>> The question 'How hard is it to start a technical startup with Haskell?'<br>
>> happened a couple of times on this list. Sometimes it was in the form 'How hard<br>
>> is to find Haskell programmers?' or 'Are there any Haskell jobs?'.<br>
>><br>
>> I'd like to provide one data point as an answer:<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngbbp/haskell_only_esigning_startup_closes_second_angel/" target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ngbbp/haskell_only_esigning_startup_closes_second_angel/</a><br>
>><br>
>> Full disclosure: I'm one of two that founded this startup.<br>
>><br>
>> How are others doing businesses using Haskell doing these days?<br>
><br>
> I don't run a startup myself, but I know of at least three startups<br>
> using Haskell for web development (through Yesod), and my company is<br>
> basing its new web products on Yesod as well. I think there are plenty<br>
> of highly qualified Haskell programmers out there, especially if<br>
> you're willing to let someone work remotely.<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
><br>
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