Anything I can do to get you to become a Wallaroo user? <I at least have to ask> Also, thank you for the kind words about our blog. It means a lot. We put a lo

Anything I can do to get you to become a Wallaroo user? <I at least have to ask> Also, thank you for the kind words about our blog. It means a lot. We put a lot of effort into it and we hope that it both drives Wallaroo usage but is also valuable as a general technical resource. > was the dual license nature really the problem, or is the "market" not as large as you may have thought, in reality? The dual license was definitely a problem if the goal is to get usage. Would the people who balked at the license have paid us money? Maybe not but, they could have been valuable as members of the community. Could have helped us learn about new and interesting Wallaroo use cases. Could have acted as social proof for Wallaroo. We get none of those things if they are scared away the license. And I personally heard from a lot of folks who balked at the license. I was talking to an engineer from very large company who wanted to use Wallaroo and would have made great press for us but, they couldn't without getting legal involved and the project died there. That was the day that I personally started thinking seriously about the license and if we had done the right thing. It's hard to be out there telling people the real value of the project is in the ease of scaling but making payment required for that. Ended a lot of conversations. > is the "market" not as large as you may have thought Well, we went into this with "there's a small market now, but we see it growing". So, I would say no. We knew the Python streaming/event-driven application market was small compared to the Java one right now. But, we also see it growing at a steady rate (with signs of a big big jump at some point). > What is the business model now? Things we've found that people are happy to pay for - Support/license that involves us giving them the same assurances of "someone being there" that they get with proprietary software - "Managed service", we'll install and run your Wallaroo applications for you inside your AWS/GCP/Azure accounts. - Enterprise version. We plan on creating products that live around Wallaroo that aren't of interest to the open source community but would be valuable to enterprise users. In the end, what's most important to us right now is getting closer to more users and using what we learn from them to accelerate our improvement of Wallaroo. The more users we have, the more chances we have learn, and the more chances we have to continue to improve our product market fit.