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A qualified "yes". Dependabot has ~100 paying customers, and makes just over $2,000 a month. It's still quite a lot of work adding new features, but if I wasn'
by greysteil 9y ago
A qualified "yes".
Dependabot has ~100 paying customers, and makes just over $2,000 a month. It's still quite a lot of work adding new features, but if I wasn't extending it's functionality it would be passive income.
Personably have raised money and landed some big paying customers - I think there's scope for them to be solving a relatively large problem, having started from a duct-tape fix.
The only proviso I'd add to the article is that sometimes the problems you find like this are small. Dependabot will never be a full-blown startup - it's scope is too small. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though - I think the problem has still been well worth solving thoroughly.
https://dependabot.com https://dependabot.com
https://personably.co https://personably.co
- biarity 9y agoDon't any of the langauges you support have options to keep all dependencies up to date? Eg. By putting wildcards in version numbers
- greysteil 9y agoThat’s normally an option for your manifest file (e.g., a Gemfile or package.json), but most production applications also (sensibly) use a lockfile. Updating the versions in that lockfile is what Dependabot is great for.