Well known sites/apps that you think would be a good fit for Elixir?

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Etsy just posted a job on Devtalk (link) and my first thought was that Elixir/Erlang would be a good fit for them since they’re quite a high-traffic site.

Have you ever thought similar? Any well known/popular sites or apps you think would be a good fit for Elixir?

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My irrational belief is that almost any SaaS can be cloned in Elixir and be a profitable business simply because it will be so cheap to run and develop.

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Well… the Discourse forum software itself. Which is what ElixirForum is also running on.

Anyone willing to sponsor me with $12k a month for two years until I port it? :lol:

I quite agree with @martosaur though. Most projects I’ve ever seen in my life would fare amazingly well if rewritten in Elixir.

Every e-commerce project I worked on. Most fintech apps (minus high-load near-real-time crypto and stock exchanges). Real estate. Ticket reservations! Even video orchestration software – did we not get a proof of that lately, that some stadiums and sport events used Elixir for that?

Really, unless you need a lot of raw performance or need 10k throwaway objects (GC languages like Elixir and Golang struggle there) in the span of 5ms or such, then Elixir would do great.

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