No strategic roadmap is ever going to tell you: "Build a $0-revenue JavaScript runtime and one day an AI company will acquire you"

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ironmagma 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It reminds me of hearing that music majors often do well in medical school. Want to go to medical school? Just major in music, duh.

	▲	OkayPhysicist 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ha, Physics majors get the same talk about law school. It's just the selection bias of selecting for people willing to make hard pivots filtering out the under-achieving, go-with-the-flow types.

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pizlonator 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lots of strategists will tell you something like: "Build something that's useful and then there will be money".

That's 100% what happened to Bun. It's useful (like really useful) and now they're getting rewarded

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wmf 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly that's probably the best play. Monetizing dev tools directly is a nightmare.

	▲	reddalo 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And you risk ending up like Postman or Insomnia, once beautiful software which is now widely hated by developers.
	▲	morkalork 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Countdown till Astral is acquired?

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westoque 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i really think this is part of the pitch deck for bun's funding. that a bigger company would acquire it for the technology. the only reason an AI company or any company for that matter would acquire it would be to:

1. acquire talent.

2. control the future roadmap of bun.

i think it's really 1.

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mitchell_h 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I had the same thought when openai acquired rockset.

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supportengineer 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Well, that was the playbook in the 1999-2001 dotcom days.

	▲	Windchaser 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which is probably why no one's going to recommend it these days ...but hey, things are different during a bubble.