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Thank you! The previous Dart backend attempts were predating Flutter, so the conditions are very different now. Serverpod is also a funded company, and not a si
by vlidholt 4y ago
Thank you! The previous Dart backend attempts were predating Flutter, so the conditions are very different now. Serverpod is also a funded company, and not a side or hobby project like earlier Dart servers.
- ushakov 4y agoHow will you make money?
- vlidholt 4y agoThe main plan is to provide hosting for Serverpod. It's still an open-source project, so you can always host it yourself or on the cloud platform of your choice.
- ushakov 4y agoI have not seen any niche companies having success with that business model Our own surveys show, that enterprise users want to host on a platform of their choice. They are not too eager to switch providers and are more unlikely to use your software if it doesn’t run on AWS Knowing that, if you want to capture enterprise users, you should offer a managed version of your product on AWS or GCP
- loic-sharma 4y agoThe Laravel framework makes money by its hosting business, Forge.
- ushakov 4y agoForge only confirms my assumptions. From their website: > Forge links to your account on one of our supported cloud providers They help you deploy PHP applications to your AWS/DigitalOcean/Linode account
- vlidholt 4y agoThank you! We are definitely exploring more avenues than just regular server hosting.
- satvikpendem 4y agoVercel, Netlify etc are big ones in the webdev world.
- ushakov 4y agoTheir revenues and market shares are laughable Netlify revenue is approximately $20M, Vercel’s $25M AWS revenue is $65B
- ohgodplsno 4y agoA company does not need to reach Amazon size to be viable, despite what all the VCs try to hammer in your mind. A 20M revenue company is perfectly fine. So is a 2M one, or even a 200k one.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThey're both in the VC phase and are getting more enterprise clients, so I wouldn't take their current revenues prima facie.