Bootstrapping POWER8 Little Endian and Common Pitfalls
Published in 2014, this chronicle by @wmat details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 45 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 3 comments
There's plenty of add'l howtos for cross bootstrapping Linux on the LFS site with everything step-by-step and with patches:
Here's the PPC (might be big endian-mode):
http://www.clfs.org/view/CLFS-3.0.0-SYSTEMD/ppc/
I'd be curious to have some benchmarks to see how Power compares to X86.
According to IBM their architecture is miles ahead Intel, but there's never a real world bench to prove it's not just marketing.