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What is the business model? Where does the money come to pay for the dev and hosting? This is the question I'm left with. Nothing is free and I didn't find thi
by mfer 7y ago
What is the business model? Where does the money come to pay for the dev and hosting? This is the question I'm left with.
Nothing is free and I didn't find this in crunchbase.
Something is paying for it. Is it tracking people and selling it?
- eternalny1 7y agoIt says it right at the bottom of the page! > Love Pika? Go Pro! Pika CDN will always be free, but you can support the project with a Pro Membership donation on Patreon. Get early access to upcoming production-only features.
- pier25 7y agoThis is wishful thinking IMO. What if in 5-10 years the volume is too big to be funded by donations? Will Pika sell to a malicious company? Will it shut down and kill everyone that depends on it?
- true_religion 7y agoWell yes, it will probably shut down just like the official python package repo will shut down if it’s sponsors can’t meet the budget. Nothing is guaranteed to last forever.
- pier25 7y agoThe difference being apps are actually pointing to the packages in realtime. If the CDN falls the app stops working.
- pier25 7y agoThis is a great recent talk about this problem by the former NPM CTO in which she tells her story about NPM and proposes a new decentralized package manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO8hZlgK5zc
- Roboprog 7y agoMarketing data The referred by string in the request tells them what page the user is loading which requires a script from this CDN. They could have other business angles as well, but user tracking is certainly one possibility.