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Looks cool, but - is Bridge an open source project? Is it a company? All of the above? Do I have to pay for it? What are the prices? As someone who makes archi
by newhouseb 14y ago
Looks cool, but - is Bridge an open source project? Is it a company? All of the above? Do I have to pay for it? What are the prices?
As someone who makes architectural decisions on a regular basis, I need to know that if a company that we're a dependency on dies, we can rip it out and replace it with a) an open source version of what we were paying for or b) our own alternative implementation (which sounds like something on top of RabbitMQ in this case). It's frustrating to see companies like this positioning themselves in a way that makes them difficult to evaluate.
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- dshankar 14y agoWe're a well funded company. We've raised money from A16Z, Salesforce.com, and a bunch of others.[1] We have open sourced the clients but Bridge Server is not open source.[2] How do we make money? We're building this type of software for much larger organizations (think enterprise & government). We're not in the business of charging hackers and students $5. We're likely going to charge some money for Bridge Cloud as a lot of the startups currently using Bridge prefer to use & pay for Bridge Cloud. It's the peace of mind of not having to deal with ops on a messaging server. Bridge server itself will also cost some money. But the point is that we're only going to charge the big guys who can easily afford such systems. Their alternative today is to spend tens of millions on an engineering team to build systems in house. There will always be a generous free tier for Bridge. You can download Bridge right now and pump 40,000 messages per minute through it for FREE. Do you need more? Just call me, I'm happy to bump you up.[3] We have a setup for companies paying us and need to see the source code. If it's really important to you, we're happy to show you the code. What can I do to help you evaluate Bridge? Can you shoot me an email? I'm at darshan@getbridge.com. [1]http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/andreessen-horowitz-salesforce-put-1-4m-in-real-time-messaging-infrastructure-startup-flotype/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/andreessen-horowitz-salesfo... [2]http://github.com/getbridge http://github.com/getbridge [3]https://www.getbridge.com/start https://www.getbridge.com/start
- justauser 14y agoCan you please put all of this on your site? This discussion is only temporary and many of us are interested in the particulars.
- dshankar 14y agoI will do that tonight!
- mrinterweb 14y ago40K messages per minute is pretty generous. I have hopes of surpassing 40K messages per minute. The one thing that would block me from ever getting started using Bridge is the uncertainty of how much it will cost once I need >40K/minute. I do not like the idea of getting started with a product without knowing what my costs will be down the road when I need to pay for the product.
- dshankar 14y agoShoot me an email, darshan@getbridge.com, and I'll explain my initial thoughts on pricing. I expect to add a pricing page to the website next week.
- Cilvic 14y agoYou should provide this question/answer as a FAQ on your website. I came to HN to search for this after not finding the info on your website.