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Comment by shinryuu | Hacker News Reader

Personally I’d be surprised if this startup is around in five years

Right. It sounds like a fun thing to build. But i'd love to read an honest explanation from an investor of why they funded it.

Dark raised 3.5 million USD from eight funds, which is under half a million each; maybe that amount is so small that a VC will invest it just for fun?

The founders are well-enough connected to get this sorta funding...

Right, and Paul Biggar founded CircleCI before this, which has been pretty successful!

in theory having an online code editor that makes deployments and handles the infrastructure for you sounds good and from this i can see the logical deduction that this platform would save costs and simplify processes. But they are most likely not technical and as such don’t understand that code is written the way it is due to the many variations between projects.

Trust me, getting VC money isn't magically easier at small scales. There's a reason most businesses die under-capitalized.

It's simple if you know people with deep pockets -- and there was this mantra of invest in the team for awhile; not sure if that's still really a thing.

It certainly is extremely ambitious in scope...

The language design better be exquisite to draw in early adopters. And then it better grow fast to achieve feature parity with all the other server languages.

you can say that about every startup.

I'd be shocked if they survive another two years.

This is an absurd approach.

Come use our proprietary system, we built it in the dark without embracing customers, hope we don't fail now that it's public, and launch your startup on it so we can make deployments easier.

#STUPID-IDEA

Go use Netlify.com if you want a serverless solution that you can deploy on trivially.

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