Comment by darkhorse13
5 years ago
Is it really such a good idea to entice young people like this? Shouldn't someone at least be interested and have domain knowledge in CRDTs and real-time collaboration before diving into building a startup like this?
There's no need to gatekeep building something on already having knowledge.
If someone has time and energy and desire, not knowing anything about document editing or CRDTs is not a blocker. Those things can be learned in a week to a month by someone who dedicates time to it.
Very few parts of software are inaccessible to someone with basic CS knowledge. It's a great idea for people to try something, regardless of their background, and if they fail but learn something, that's still a fine outcome.
Worked for Figma, right?
I'm sure they fall into the collaborative software space, utilise CRDTs and the founders are less than 40 years of age.
This seems like gatekeeping no?
Well, yes, of course. But my comment assumes the person might be interested in the subject.