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whats the monetization strategy?

• igorsyl 14y ago
  Support and hosting?
• ajross 14y ago
  Clearly it starts by getting someone to write you a $9M check to develop your Javascript library (excuse me, "platform"). This gold rush is so depressingly familiar. But that's not to speak ill of Meteor-the-product, which looks pretty nifty (albeit not $9M of nifty).
  • dreamdu5t 14y ago
    I hate to be so negative but I have to agree. I know many people (including myself) who've already written libraries similar to Meteor (derby comes to mind). This is ridiculous. Meteor hasn't even gotten any real adoption and it has no business model. Why create a business when you can just get investment on promises alone?
• abdinoor 14y ago
  Meteor works a lot like Heroku, and that's the monetization strategy. Currently you can push your Meteor apps to their servers and host/run them for free. But eventually they're going to charge, have add-on services, etc. Just like Heroku, but because these are the guys who built Meteor, it should be better. It will be interesting to see if anyone else tries to host Meteor apps at all, Heroku/Salesforce should be watching closely.
  • studio816 14y ago
    So apps can't be hosted on one's own servers?
    • xTTx 14y ago
      They can be, & you can deploy to Heroku too. http://docs.meteor.com/#deploying http://docs.meteor.com/#deploying
      • shykes 14y ago
        You can deploy Meteor as a dotCloud service too: https://github.com/jpetazzo/meteor-on-dotcloud https://github.com/jpetazzo/meteor-on-dotcloud