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Ask HN: Are “freemium microservices” a thing?
Not for wrapping open source code, but an alternative to selling a library - a business model pretty much obsolete.
With AWS Lambda, and their API Gateway easing authentication etc, it seems they're gearing up to support it. Latency would be minimal in the same (AWS) cloud.
Will there be a "SerStore"?
- detaro 11y agoWhat's the difference from what you are thinking of to random SaaS offerings?
- hyperpallium 11y agoSaaS could do it, but tend not to be small, library-like things (pure functions, that process information and return the result), but more connected to a real-world service, that you are just accessing through an API... Though maybe I'm wrong - are there random SaaS offerings like that? EDIT Thanks for requesting clarification! Made me realize I do know of some: google's data-to-graph-image service (now closed) and various conversions (e.g. text-to-pdf). But these don't make money - unique value propositions for libraries is difficult, because of open source alternatives. That's a business problem; not solvable by a new access technology. Perhaps charging for pure software was a historical abberation.