We Rewrote Our Startup from PHP to Gleam in 3 Weeks

[ember valve]

https://www.radical-elements.com/minor-epiphanies/we-rewrote-our-startup-from-php-to-gleam-in-3-weeks

"We are officially running our startup in Gleam! Our freshly written Gleam code is now live on our production servers. Not a single line of PHP. I am excited, and a bit frightened."

PS: I have nothing to do with this post. I just stumbled over it. All credit goes to the people at this startup and their work. I was just at the right feed at the right time to see it.

Here's the original reddit thread where I found it if people want to share their love: https://www.reddit.com/r/gleamlang/comments/1p6h766/we_rewrote_our_startup_from_php_to_gleam_in_3/

Here's the product that is now written in Gleam:
https://about.numenon.app/

[flat sage]

That’s sick

[brazen oriole]

Thank you John for sharing it 🙏 . if you have any questions I am happy to answer

[lament prawn]

I am excited, and a bit frightened.
amazing

[ember valve]

I just think it is awesome to see Gleam popping up in more production systems. Once you have more traffic I'd love to hear more about growing pains (which always pops up regardless of stack).

So a post-launch follow-up retrospective thing would be very cool! 😄

[brazen oriole]

You can't image how much I want to be in a position where traffic will be significant! I will surely follow up then

[fiery arch]

Wow!!!

Looking board to reading this later

[lament prawn]

Louis, the creator
rap album out 2026

[brazen oriole]

Maybe I was biased when writing it. It was the lastest record I bought 😛 (seriously)

[ruby cypress]

shared on lobsters and the orange one

[lament prawn]

Just Gleam and Svelte
I look forward to the lustre frontend rewrite follow-up 😉

i'm really enjoying this read @brazen oriole

[brazen oriole]

We did consider it, but it's a huge project. Especially tip tap bindings and all our custom plugins. I really wish to be in a position to be able to dedicate 3 months on that

[fading loom]

there's a bg job library??

[lament prawn]

yeah i don't mean to trivialise it

[fading loom]

gonna check m25 immediately

[verbal quartz]

I was about to say the same thing ^.^

[solemn marsh]

On the Gleam website there are deployment guides which I ignored, in order to go with something as simple as a 5-line bash script. It runs the tests, bundles the javascript, builds the Erlang shipment, rsyncs it to the server and restarts the service. That's it. I am a happy person.
This is brillant ! I love the simplicity of this 😅

[fiery arch]

based

[worthy whale]

Which library did you use for SMTP?

[brazen oriole]

I used gen_smtp

[lament prawn]

the duality of man:

• writes deployment guides
• happy when theyre ignored for a simpler solution

[fair plaza]

That's not how you spell bored

[fiery arch]

hey have you read my deployment guide

it's the same level

[fiery arch]

oops

[lament prawn]

nope, youve caught me red handed 😛