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January 15, 2015

Dream big, work hard and make it happen!

Today is a big day for the Red team and all the Red followers.

After four years of hard work on building our dream tool, I announce today the creation of a new company, Fullstack Technologies. The company has raised $500,000 from InnovationWorks and GeekFounders, Chinese VC early-stage investors. This money will help us fuel the launch of Red this year, and spread it everywhere, especially in the mobile market. The mission of Fullstack Technologies is to provide to individual developers and corporations, a simpler and much more productive software creation solution, reducing drastically both costs and development time.

The company has its headquarters in Zhongguancun, Beijing (Chinese's "Silicon Valley"). I am CEO now (once more) and Xie Qingtian (qtxie) is joining the company as tech lead. We plan to recruit more people in the next months.

I want to use this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to all the people in the community who have helped me, contributed to Red and supported my work with donations since the beginning. I simply could not have made it so far without you.

Also, even if the funding needs are now covered, the Red community still has a major role to play in helping us build the best possible tool and spreading it. Fullstack Technologies intends to work closely with the community, by providing some contracted jobs, bounties and sponsoring for helping spread Red locally.

People who follow closely my work on Red know that I have a strong vision and big ambitions for it, now I have the means to make all that happen! This journey is getting even more exciting. :-)



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30 comments:

  1. mydoghaswormsJanuary 16, 2015 at 2:28 PM

    Wow, this is big news! Looking forward to following the development of Red. Exciting times. All the best for your role as CEO.

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  2. -pekr-January 16, 2015 at 2:29 PM

    Congratulations to all involved! :-) FullStack Technologies - really a cool name :-)

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  3. Tom MaynardJanuary 16, 2015 at 5:42 PM

    Wow, that is truly excellent news. It has made all the teasing, waiting, ..., even worrying, totally worthwhile. I wish Fullstack a "Full Speed Ahead" on the launch, and I am already on the bandwagon.

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:04 PM

      Glad to hear that, thanks for your kind support! :-)

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  4. ingoJanuary 16, 2015 at 6:20 PM

    Congratulations Nenad!

    Can't wait for your vision to unfold

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  5. TomJanuary 16, 2015 at 8:37 PM

    Congratulations Nenad! I've been following Rebol now for six years, and have been following Red since the project was first announced. The field of computer science has fallen off track, and Red is the solution. There is no doubt in my mind that Red is the present and future of programming. I tell nearly every computer engineering student and professor that I meet at the university I attend about it. I am looking forward to the future of Red, and I wish you the best of luck with your Fullstack Technologies.


    Thomas Royko
    Co-Owner and Tech Lead,
    Intense Gaming Logic LLC

    PS. Now that the holidays are over, I'll get back to working on the Red-Mono bridge again.

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:08 PM

      Thank you very much for your continuous support Thomas, Red will be very soon mature enough to start writing some very impressive demos, that you'll be able to show around. ;-) Mono bridge is very welcome, that's a very useful piece to enter the corporate market.

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  6. JontyJanuary 17, 2015 at 7:10 AM

    Great to hear!

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  7. Francois Jouen (ldci)January 17, 2015 at 1:23 PM

    Great! Congratulations on this fabulous work!

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  8. ThomasJanuary 17, 2015 at 1:49 PM

    Un grand Bravo Nenad ! What an achievement ! Determination, so much work and personal investment..."Chapeau bas" ! I wish you the best for you, Red, and ""Fullstack Technologies" ! I stay tuned ! I remember the day you spoke to a few people gathered in Paris about the idea of a new language inspired by Rebol with great ambitions...now, it's not a dream anyamore...very glad for you and for the community following Red...big hope ! And byt the way "une très bonne année 2015" !

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:02 PM

      Merci beaucoup Thomas. I also remember that day in Paris clearly. ;-) Glad to see you around supporting Red! We will need to build a strong French community too, I hope you can play a big part in that. ;-)

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  9. ArieJanuary 17, 2015 at 5:13 PM

    Congratulations!!!!

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  10. ArnoldJanuary 17, 2015 at 9:08 PM

    Great achievement Nenad (and team)!!

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  11. mydoghaswormsJanuary 19, 2015 at 7:54 AM

    Just a question about the name: I see there is a company called FullStack Technologies with the following website: http://fullstacktechnologies.com/. I am guessing this is not you, right? And if so, how will you differentiate yourself (marketing-wise) from these guys?

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  12. mydoghaswormsJanuary 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM

    Oh wait, I just saw the post on the Red mailing list and see that it is the same company: http://www.fullstacktechnologies.com/, but I thought that it is a brand new startup. On the website though it looks like an established company with some big customers already. Anyway, all the best and I hope we see a "developers" section on the website soon ;-)

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:13 PM

      No worries, we are a very different company, doing a different business, there will be no possible confusion. ;-)

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  13. James_NakJanuary 22, 2015 at 4:08 AM

    Doc, that is such great news for us all. Congratulations!

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  14. Peter W A Wood, ProgrammerJanuary 23, 2015 at 4:46 PM

    There are several other companies with the name Fullstack Technologies and none of them are connected with the company Nenad just launched. Nor do any of them compete with Red.

    The marketing efforts will be focussed on Red far, far more than the name of the company.

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  15. smalltalkJanuary 23, 2015 at 11:54 PM

    good news.I will translate red-lang docs in chinese

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:17 PM

      Thank you for your kind offer. :-) We'll do a coordinated effort with other Chinese translators when the english documentation will be ready, please follow the future announcements on Twitter and this blog about that.

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  16. LaurentJanuary 27, 2015 at 4:02 PM

    Bravo Nenad ! Et meilleurs vœux !

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  17. winstarstJanuary 29, 2015 at 4:55 PM

    Congratulations! Welcome to Bejing, I found RED from CSDN, thanks for your work, I like RED, and will have a try with RED.

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  18. AndreiFebruary 2, 2015 at 10:21 AM

    If this ends up as a double post I am truly sorry but I wanted to say congratulations for all your hard work so far, you as well as the whole community.

    Here's for a fully productive year and may we see a mobile version with full HW and GLES support as soon as possible !:D

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    1. Nenad RakocevicMarch 15, 2015 at 12:19 PM

      Thank you for your kind words. We'll do our best to not disappoint you for mobile support. ;-)

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  19. PalaingFebruary 8, 2015 at 9:59 PM

    Bravo Nenad!
    On attend Red avec impatience.

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  20. AnonymousMarch 15, 2015 at 8:10 AM

    might we see a direct [ARM octacore] Vulkan API back/frontend in a near term ?
    see the initial SPIR-V Specification (Provisional) API
    https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf ?

    there's also the chromiumos frecon https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/frecon/ to consider if the intent is to include cutting edge GIU API's to keep rebol/RED relevent in the near future etc....

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  21. PeterWAWoodMarch 15, 2015 at 10:48 AM

    It is unlikely that there will be any new backends prior to both the release of Red 1.0 and the introduction of the modular, self-hosted compiler. The modular compiler will make it much easier for people to contribute to improving the compiler and adding additional targets.

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  22. AnonymousMarch 16, 2015 at 9:17 AM

    thats a shame peter as everyone and his dog will be looking to any tools that can provide them with simple Vulkan API GUI's etc , if the internet scripting languages rebol/red etc cant ride the massive Vulkan/SPIR-V to become popular everywhere than its in my view yet another lost opportunity to add to all the others misses rebol missed for no good reason, making audio/video multicast tunnels for consumer lead video streaming and control GUI's etc

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  23. PeterWAWoodMarch 16, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    Personally, I feel that it would be a bigger shame if Red never got to a usable state because its scope kept growing and growing. Though that is my personal opinion.

    I'm sure that if someone was to submit a pull request with working Vulkan support, it would be very gratefully accepted. I just don't know how feasible it would be to do so given the "throwaway" nature of the current compiler.

    You obviously feel strongly about this, may I suggest that you submit a proposal via the project Github wiki (https://github.com/red/red/wiki).

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