RailsConf 2024 Keynote "Startups on Rails in 2024"

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2. My first RailsConf, 2023
3. RAILS WORLD AMSTERDAM 2023 IRINA NAZAROVA CEO @ Evil Martians Co-founder @ AnyCable 3
4. MISSING: STARTUP STORIES
5. 🤝 STARTUPS
6. ☎ 5 8 z 13 21 25 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
7. UNEXPECTED: URGENCY TO BUILD
8. January 2023, North Carolina. Four experienced founders…
12. THEY CHOOSE…
14. …FOR THREE MONTHS
15. Craftwork needs: • Custom CRM • Lots of CRUD • Lots of API integrations
16. “OUR SPEED OF DELIVERY WITH NEXT.JS WAS NOT ENOUGH” MIKE BIFULCO CTO, CRAFTWORK
17. THEY SWITCH TO “BORING TECH”
19. “IT’S CRAZY, HOW FAST YOU CAN SHIP FEATURES WITH RAILS!” MIKE BIFULCO CTO, CRAFTWORK
20. “CONVENTION OVER CONFIGURATION ELIMINATES DECISION FATIGUE ” GAREN TORIKIAN CTO, YETTO
21. “RAILS IS COMPLETE” JOHN BACHIR DIRECTOR OF ENG, HEALTHY
22. “RAILS HAS AN OUTSTANDING ECOSYSTEM” DORIAN LUPU FOUNDER, BOTYGLOT
23. ✅ Summer 2023: Y Combinator ✴ ✅ November 2023: $6M Seed round SUCCESS ON RAILS: CRAFTWORK
24. 2021, the pandemic, NYC. Three 21 y.o. recent college grads…
27. “I WAS SKEPTICAL ABOUT RUBY” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM
28. “I DID NOT HAVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH SERVERFUL APPLICATIONS” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM
29. “MY FIRST WOW MOMENT WITH RAILS WAS THE 15 MINUTE DHH BLOG VIDEO” KAI UWATERLOO DROPOUT BUILDING STUFF
30. “I – OBVIOUSLY – FELL IN LOVE WITH RAILS INSTANTLY” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM
32. “ACTIVE RECORD IS A PRODUCTIVITY SUPERPOWER” EDOARDO SERRA CTO, STEPFUL
33. “WE COULD SHIP EVERY FEATURE OUR CUSTOMERS ASKED FOR, BECAUSE RAILS ENABLED US TO BUILD SOOO FAST” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM
34. ✅ Powered $322M sales volume ✅ Raised $18M funding SUCCESS ON RAILS: WHOP
35. “I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY MORE STARTUPS ARE NOT CHOOSING RAILS” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM
36. 2021, Boston. Two tech execs…
39. MICRO SERVICES 70+ THEY CHOOSE…
40. ✅ 100M miles
41. Flexcar needs • Faster delivery of new features • Better developer productivity
42. FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR “WE NEEDED A CHANGE…”
43. IN JAN 2024 FLEXCAR STARTS MIGRATION TO
44. “SKEPTICS FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DX OF A MONOLITHIC RAILS APP” FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR
45. “RAILS MADE ME 3X FASTER VS. JAVA” SARAH EGGLESTON CTO, FFLOW
46. 🔜 Release the new Rails monolith to production SUCCESS ON RAILS: FLEXCAR
47. Goosebumps?
48. ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
49. THEY RELY ON RAILS ECOSYSTEM
51. WHAT’S MISSING…
52. TOP 5 MOST WANTED IN REVERSE ORDER
53. WE ARE NOT LOUD ENOUGH
54. “ARE WE THE ONLY ONES BUILDING WITH RUBY OUT THERE?” DANIEL FARINA CTO, UBICLOUD
55. .ORG ✨ ✨ UPCOMING
56. .ORG UPCOMING Washington, DC Verona, Italy Hamburg, Germany Malmö, Sweden Brighton, UK Nairobi, Kenya Okinawa, Japan NC, USA Madison, WI Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Zurich, Switzerland Singapore Idaho, USA Bucharest, Romania Toronto, Canada Boulder, Colorado Cape Town, South Africa Tokyo, Japan Chicago, IL So fi a, Bulgaria MEETUPS Austin, TX Boulder, CO San Francisco, CA New York, NY Austin, TX Toronto, Canada Montevideo, Uruguay Makati, Philippines Paris, France London, UK Geneva, Switzerland KEEP ‘EM COMING ✨ ✨
57. WE ARE NOT LOUD ENOUGH – Let’s run local meetups – More advocacy at non-Ruby events – More advocacy at non-Ruby platforms (HackerNews, Reddit, SO)
58. MORE RUBY FOR AI
59. “EXPRESSIVENESS OF RUBY MAKES IT PERFECT FOR DATA AND AI - NATIVE APPS” FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR
60. MORE RUBY FOR AI 🛠 patterns-ai-core/langchainrb 🛠 alexrudall/ruby-openai 🛠 OlympiaAI/open_router 🛠 thedayisntgray/react_ai
61. MORE INTEGRATIONS – Update existing integrations – Build/request integrations with new tech
62. RAILS FRONT - END ECOSYSTEM – Real world examples in documentation – UI component libraries (see hotwire.io) – Optimistic UI (see hotwire.club)
63. OPTIMISTIC UI Illusion of zero latency. pending request immediate state update
64. INTEGRATION WITH REACT Frontend DX (type safety, generators, etc.) ★☆☆ No API ★☆☆ Rest API ★★☆ GraphQL
66. TOO MUCH WORK FOR THE RAILS CORE TEAM…?
67. CORE TEAM IS DOING GOD’S WORK Security Maintenance Adapterization
68. CORE TEAM’S UNGLAMOROUS WORK
69. RAILS IS A BIG TENT
70. “I PREFER COMMUNITY - BUILT SOLUTIONS” GAREN TORIKIAN CTO, YETTO
71. THE FUTURE OF NEW STARTUPS ON RAILS IS UP TO US
72. WHENEVER YOU FEEL YOU NEED SOMEONE’S BLESSING, OR PERMISSION…
73. REBEL
74. REBEL
75. BUILD AND EARN MONEY ON IT
76. I’M SERIOUS
77. WELCOME TO THE HACK DAY 🏁
78. HACK DAY -Rails -RubyGems -Rails-LSP -Noticed, Pay -Pundit -Rails::HTML::Sanitizer, Loofah -TestProf, Action Policy, AnyCable -Packs / Code Ownership -Speakerline -Oaken -singed -Oh My Zsh -Shopify Open Source -Gusto Open Source -thoughtbot Open Source - O ffi ce Hours
79. LET’S DO THIS TOGETHER bring your feedback and share use cases with OSS maintainers contribute to and upgrade existing projects build new integrations create and share content start local meetups
80. ABOUT BUILDING WITH RAILS WHATEVER YOU DO DON’T BE SHY
81. EVILMARTIANS.COM/ RAILS - STARTUP - STACK
82. THANK YOU
83. THANK YOU in@evilmartians.com twitter.com/inazarova Please donate to razomforukraine.org