Services+Arbitrage definitely works. But Mighty didn't solve a painful-enough pain point. The arbitrage was how Mighty made money (buy a cloud VM for $10/mo an

Services+Arbitrage definitely works. But Mighty didn't solve a painful-enough pain point. The arbitrage was how Mighty made money (buy a cloud VM for $10/mo and sell it for $20 with a software wrapper). But customers need a reason to pay for it. The advantages that Mighty offered weren't significant enough to impact most people. If they did, the advantages gained were questionable IMHO. Forcing people into a whole new workflow to slightly improve client-side JS performance is probably a worse trade-off for the vast majority of people even if you ignore cost entirely. Only a small group of people are encountering this pain point enough to actually seek out a solution for it. Once that small group of people find your solution, then you have to convince them to pay $20-30 a month to remove it. People are already canceling $12/mo Netflix subscriptions. To pay double-that for better JS rendering is a tough sale.