RailsConf 2024 Keynote "Startups on Rails in 2024"

by Irina Nazarova

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My first RailsConf, 2023

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RAILS WORLD AMSTERDAM 2023 IRINA NAZAROVA CEO @ Evil Martians Co-founder @ AnyCable 3

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MISSING: STARTUP STORIES

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🤝 STARTUPS

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☎ 5 8 z 13 21 25 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨

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UNEXPECTED: URGENCY TO BUILD

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January 2023, North Carolina. Four experienced founders…

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THEY CHOOSE…

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…FOR THREE MONTHS

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Craftwork needs: • Custom CRM • Lots of CRUD • Lots of API integrations

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“OUR SPEED OF DELIVERY WITH NEXT.JS WAS NOT ENOUGH” MIKE BIFULCO CTO, CRAFTWORK

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THEY SWITCH TO “BORING TECH”

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“IT’S CRAZY, HOW FAST YOU CAN SHIP FEATURES WITH RAILS!” MIKE BIFULCO CTO, CRAFTWORK

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“CONVENTION OVER CONFIGURATION ELIMINATES DECISION FATIGUE ” GAREN TORIKIAN CTO, YETTO

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“RAILS IS COMPLETE” JOHN BACHIR DIRECTOR OF ENG, HEALTHY

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“RAILS HAS AN OUTSTANDING ECOSYSTEM” DORIAN LUPU FOUNDER, BOTYGLOT

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✅ Summer 2023: Y Combinator ✴ ✅ November 2023: $6M Seed round SUCCESS ON RAILS: CRAFTWORK

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2021, the pandemic, NYC. Three 21 y.o. recent college grads…

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“I WAS SKEPTICAL ABOUT RUBY” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM

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“I DID NOT HAVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITH SERVERFUL APPLICATIONS” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM

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“MY FIRST WOW MOMENT WITH RAILS WAS THE 15 MINUTE DHH BLOG VIDEO” KAI UWATERLOO DROPOUT BUILDING STUFF

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“I – OBVIOUSLY – FELL IN LOVE WITH RAILS INSTANTLY” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM

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“ACTIVE RECORD IS A PRODUCTIVITY SUPERPOWER” EDOARDO SERRA CTO, STEPFUL

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“WE COULD SHIP EVERY FEATURE OUR CUSTOMERS ASKED FOR, BECAUSE RAILS ENABLED US TO BUILD SOOO FAST” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM

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✅ Powered $322M sales volume ✅ Raised $18M funding SUCCESS ON RAILS: WHOP

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“I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY MORE STARTUPS ARE NOT CHOOSING RAILS” JACK SHARKEY CTO, WHOP.COM

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2021, Boston. Two tech execs…

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MICRO SERVICES 70+ THEY CHOOSE…

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✅ 100M miles

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Flexcar needs • Faster delivery of new features • Better developer productivity

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FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR “WE NEEDED A CHANGE…”

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IN JAN 2024 FLEXCAR STARTS MIGRATION TO

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“SKEPTICS FELL IN LOVE WITH THE DX OF A MONOLITHIC RAILS APP” FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR

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“RAILS MADE ME 3X FASTER VS. JAVA” SARAH EGGLESTON CTO, FFLOW

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🔜 Release the new Rails monolith to production SUCCESS ON RAILS: FLEXCAR

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Goosebumps?

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✨ ✨ ✨ ✨

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THEY RELY ON RAILS ECOSYSTEM

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WHAT’S MISSING…

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TOP 5 MOST WANTED IN REVERSE ORDER

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WE ARE NOT LOUD ENOUGH

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“ARE WE THE ONLY ONES BUILDING WITH RUBY OUT THERE?” DANIEL FARINA CTO, UBICLOUD

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.ORG ✨ ✨ UPCOMING

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.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 ✨ ✨

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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)

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MORE RUBY FOR AI

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“EXPRESSIVENESS OF RUBY MAKES IT PERFECT FOR DATA AND AI - NATIVE APPS” FREEDOM DUMLAO CTO, FLEXCAR

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MORE RUBY FOR AI 🛠 patterns-ai-core/langchainrb 🛠 alexrudall/ruby-openai 🛠 OlympiaAI/open_router 🛠 thedayisntgray/react_ai

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MORE INTEGRATIONS – Update existing integrations – Build/request integrations with new tech

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RAILS FRONT - END ECOSYSTEM – Real world examples in documentation – UI component libraries (see hotwire.io) – Optimistic UI (see hotwire.club)

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OPTIMISTIC UI Illusion of zero latency. pending request immediate state update

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INTEGRATION WITH REACT Frontend DX (type safety, generators, etc.) ★☆☆ No API ★☆☆ Rest API ★★☆ GraphQL

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TOO MUCH WORK FOR THE RAILS CORE TEAM…?

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CORE TEAM IS DOING GOD’S WORK Security Maintenance Adapterization

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CORE TEAM’S UNGLAMOROUS WORK

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RAILS IS A BIG TENT

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“I PREFER COMMUNITY - BUILT SOLUTIONS” GAREN TORIKIAN CTO, YETTO

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THE FUTURE OF NEW STARTUPS ON RAILS IS UP TO US

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WHENEVER YOU FEEL YOU NEED SOMEONE’S BLESSING, OR PERMISSION…

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REBEL

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REBEL

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BUILD AND EARN MONEY ON IT

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I’M SERIOUS

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WELCOME TO THE HACK DAY 🏁

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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

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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

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ABOUT BUILDING WITH RAILS WHATEVER YOU DO DON’T BE SHY

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EVILMARTIANS.COM/ RAILS - STARTUP - STACK

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THANK YOU

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THANK YOU [email protected] twitter.com/inazarova Please donate to razomforukraine.org