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From "So how does Astral plan to make money? " (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216): "What I want to d
by bruckie 1y ago
From "So how does Astral plan to make money?
" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216):
"What I want to do is build software that vertically integrates with our open source tools, and sell that software to companies that are already using Ruff, uv, etc. Alternatives to things that companies already pay for today. An example of what this might look like [...] would be something like an enterprise-focused private package registry."
There's also this interview with Charlie Marsh (Astral founder): https://timclicks.dev/podcast/supercharging-python-tooling-an-interview-with-charlie-marsh https://timclicks.dev/podcast/supercharging-python-tooling-a... (specifically the "Building a commerical company with venture capital
" section)
- throwway120385 1y agoThat doesn't really seem like a way to avoid getting "Broadcommed." Vertically integrated tooling is kind of a commodity.
- LtWorf 1y agoIt doesn't seem to answer to anything.
- ploxiln 1y agohmm how well did that work for Docker ...