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Hey, Tom Preston-Werner, co-creator of RedwoodJS here. We've been working hard on React Server Components support in RedwoodJS and really happy to finally have a bare-bones working implementation ready!
Redwood is a framework for quickly creating React-based web applications that provide an amazing end user experience. Our goal is to be simple and approachable enough for use in prototypes and hackathons, but performant and comprehensive enough to evolve into your next startup.
Until now we've focused on SPAs with GraphQL for data fetching. But this new era of RSCs allows us to offer a streamlined data fetching model that helps you iterate much faster. We still offer first class GraphQL API tooling for when you need it, but it's an optional add-on.
Thanks, Orta! I'm especially keen to get money in the hands of under-represented developers that would otherwise not have a chance to spend time on getting a startup off the ground. Hopefully we can be first money in at a time that truly makes a difference in whether a startup exists or not!
Tom Preston-Werner here, I'm behind the Redwood Startup Fund as an extension of my work on RedwoodJS. I also do a lot of angel investing, and this fund finally combines my great loves of Redwood and investing! I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about the $1M fund and how we expect to deploy it over the coming twelve months.
I appreciate the term "existential round" as it highlights your intention.
Are there other individuals, angels, firms, etc. that communicate a similar focus and intention specifically for software? Maybe this is more common than I previously realized.
Right now there is no business model, on purpose. This is why I'm personally supporting it. I think what David meant is that we are sustainable because I am committed to sustaining the project. Our goal is to find a properly sustainable model in the future that meshes well with our mission and ambition. It will be exciting to figure that out!
Good on you, one could've said the same about Next.js. Technically there is no business model, but one has been built providing additional services around it.
Next.js was an OSS project before ZEIT (now Vercel) hired on the developers, if memory serves. Next.js was certainly not the main vision for Guillermo as far as I know, but it ended up becoming a very large focal point due to its widespread success. Now, Vercel has an entire ecosystem - Next.js is certainly a 'product' in that regard.
I didn't. Thank you! It would be nice if this information was on the link posted to HN though, or maybe the link should be changed to something more clear.
It is unusual, perhaps, but as Redwood has evolved, it's been natural for us to really offer support for startups using our tools. Redwood is a more complex, more integrated, and more aligned with long term maintainability than most of the alternatives, which means our market focus is on projects that need that kind of tooling. And who needs that tooling most? Startups! Plus, I do a lot of angel investing and so helping startups is of great interest to me, so I can combine my great loves!
These were state of the art tools when we started work on Redwood more than two years ago. We're investigating other more modern alternatives, but swapping them out is a finicky and time consuming project and we've been focused on primary features. We will keep evaluating our dependencies and you may see some changes in v2!
