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calcsam: How do you think about defensibility? One might think that because the underlying tech is open source, someone else can also spring up a hosting servic
by iamwil 7y ago
calcsam: How do you think about defensibility? One might think that because the underlying tech is open source, someone else can also spring up a hosting service. Is that not an issue because agencies would want the official hosting for the open source project because they want the reassurance?
Or is it for another reason this isn't an issue?
- calcsam 7y agoInterestingly, a lot of open-source companies have built defensible businesses -- a list is over at http://oss.cash http://oss.cash. Recent IPOs include Mulesoft, Elastic, Mongo, Fastly... More specifically to Gatsby, we don't actually see ourselves in the hosting business, more in the "collaboration" business -- most websites have teams of nontechnical folks that are reviewing sites before they go live, creating and editing content, and so on. We're building Gatsby-specific collaboration tooling, starting with CMS Preview. A good comparison here would be Github -- nobody thinks of Github as "Git hosting", they think of Github as the place where developers collaborate together on projects.