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How does this service generate income, much less pay for itself?
by blantonl 16y ago
How does this service generate income, much less pay for itself?
- pilif 16y agoit doesn't. it's a fun project of mine. See also my submission to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287874 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1287874 About paying for itself: The web bandwidth is negligible as all assets are static, transferred compressed and can be cached locally. The mail part is a bit harder to predict, but in theory, most of the time, the daemon would reject delivery due to expired aliases, so I think it's not that much of an issue either. Bandwidth, hosting and connectivity is provided by my employer which honors my (and my coworkers) fun projects and lets them do them. On the other hand, I am a co-founder, so that shouldn't be surprising (in July, we'll be celebrating our 10th anniversary. Bootstrapped and profitable since day 1)