A conversation with the CTO and Co-founder of Clara, a recent thoughtbot client, about the strategy behind their decision to build their startup product with Rails and Hotwire.

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Clara is a pre-seed stage marketplace for in-home senior care, currently going through the YCombinator accelerator. They chose Ruby on Rails and Hotwire for their project due to the ability to minimize context switching and use a single codebase for both the web and mobile platforms. The CTO, Ian Gillis, highlighted the efficiency and adaptability of these technologies, especially important for early-stage companies needing to pivot quickly. Additionally, he noted a rising trend towards single codebases driven by economic considerations and new frameworks like HTMX and Hotwire exceeding user expectations without multiple codebases.

Why CTOs are choosing Hotwire and Ruby on Rails

because they dont know about data-star.dev :)

the same way they can use Laravel or Django, and actually it’s not only for early-stage companies, it’s for large companies too.
They way of teams doing such as complex solutions is amazing