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Seems they have - at least for now - given up the commercial project. I would have loved it if they were successful and made a small fortune so as to encourage
by eitland 10y ago
Seems they have - at least for now - given up the commercial project.
I would have loved it if they were successful and made a small fortune so as to encourage more innovative in this niche.
That said, seems they are once again proving what they are made of and making everything available as open source.
- kentonv 10y agoI indeed wanted Sandstorm to succeed as a business in order to support Sandstorm's development -- but to me the business was always a vehicle rather than the end goal. For now, the business hasn't worked. I'm actually somewhat relieved, as I've always felt more comfortable building pure-open-source projects rather than business-driven ones. The contortions we went through to try to get revenue felt very unnatural to me.
- rmason 10y agoHave you considered using https://www.patreon.com/ https://www.patreon.com/ ? If there's enough interest among the people using it maybe you could pay for one full time developer. I know of multiple projects where this has happened like Vue.js and Hapi.js.
- kentonv 10y agoIt's unlikely that we'd collect enough money to pay a developer in the near term. Developers are expensive. But if people want to contribute financially to the project, the easiest way is to sign up for Oasis. This avoids the 5% fee that Patreon charges.