Show HN: Cider — Hassle-free bootstrapping using Homebrew
Published in 2014, this chronicle by @mkskm 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 ★ 30 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 21 comments
Do you have to install on your own homebrew and homebrew cask?
I'm asking, because I am in the process of creating an Ansible playbook (http://docs.ansible.com/homebrew_module.html and http://docs.ansible.com/homebrew_cask_module.html) and I want to write a small bootstrap script to install homebrew and homebrew cask first.
See also http://osxc.github.io which builds upon Ansible (which is of course also built in Python).
But what if I use Homebrew to install a package (pyenv) to manage my Pythons to install cider to bootstrap Homebre...
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There was once a similar project also called Cider, created by Corey Donohoe (atmos) from GitHub. It was renamed to cinderella because of trademark infringement, so you might want to check that out: https://github.com/atmos/cider
Is this the type of thing that could have been built in to a fork of Homebrew and perhaps if people liked it been incorporated into the main distro?
I understand why things proliferate like this but it can be frustrating.
Just wanted to say that this name is already used by (quite popular) emacs Clojure IDE plugin. https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider