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What's your business model? Currently, hosting fees. We pay 3€/month and charge 10€ per 10GB instance. That could change and expand, though. Will you be ope
by david927 11y ago
What's your business model?
Currently, hosting fees. We pay 3€/month and charge 10€ per 10GB instance. That could change and expand, though.
Will you be open sourcing the backend server?
Not initially but I'm very open to the idea. I think it would remedy a lot of the concerns voiced so far in this thread.
Why would anyone want to us this over the plethora of other choices for a persistent storage layer?
Someone else above wrote, "Everyone wants a faster, lighter, more energy efficient, and reliable car, am I right?" indicating that everyone would want it but doubting that it can launch. If you're using MySQL, Postgres or SQL Server as your database right now, you would be hurting your project to not change. To pick just two features, Schema-on-Need allows you to extend and expand according to the data, not your pre-conceived notion of how the data is structured, and the query language, which leads me to the next question:
Honestly, your example syntax doesn't look that appealing.
Maybe, to you. Here's the thing I'd like you to consider: it's not about you. The majority of users that we've talked to who don't know SQL find it easier to work with. The bigger reason still is that it maps nicely to BI tools. The key here is that we need to open up data access to more non-experts.
Who's the target user for a new system like this, why would they use it, and why would they pay you?
Target user: SME, startup currently using a relational database
Why would they use it: "Everyone wants a faster, lighter, more energy efficient, and reliable car, am I right?" (The longer answer is in that same paragraph above.)
Why would they pay: Because it pays. It gives them the features they want and at the same time saves them money. It can cost a startup several thousand every month to run a SQL Server Azure instance, for example, that would cost less than 50 with Brodlist, with more features.