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I'm a business consultant and surprised how Daniel missed a big opportunity here. He should start selling to big enterprises by making curl a subscription-based
by siva7 4y ago
I'm a business consultant and surprised how Daniel missed a big opportunity here. He should start selling to big enterprises by making curl a subscription-based model. Then he could hire thousands of developers to support him so he never has to do the grunt work himself and completely focus on monetization strategy and a rewrite in nextjs. Then he could start an ad-based model in partnership with Facebook for free use to support the free tier. Daniel, if you're reading this contact me. We can make a good deal.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoI am hoping this is tongue in cheek, but also a little scared it might be in earnest... on the plus side trying to imagine what ad-supported curl calls might look like does at least make me giggle a little.
- tempodox 4y agoIf people think this is a joke, get real.
- msla 4y agoJust think of it: HTTP is in the base, but HTTPS is on a subscription model with payment based on volume, cipher, and number of hosts communicated with. Hosts can pay to make their endpoints cheaper to talk to, but curl adds sponsored fields to all JSON sent to endpoints unless a "clean JSON" subscription is purchased. curl of course sends telemetry to its developers' endpoint, at the usual rate, and refuses to work if that endpoint sends a 5xx or 4xx response. Better hope Cloudflare doesn't have one of its hiccups while you're debugging a RESTful endpoint! (Telemetry may be used to ensure curl isn't employed in violating the law, trade secrets, business model, or terms of service of any business partners. All of this is strictly necessary because the curl developers have no legal or financial presence in the EU or California. Your continued use of curl constitutes your assent to these practices.)