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I think that increasingly, software-based businesses will be starkly divided by the "application" and the "infrastructure" realm. While the former is made by a
by triplefox 18y ago
I think that increasingly, software-based businesses will be starkly divided by the "application" and the "infrastructure" realm. While the former is made by a single person or a small group and runs on preexisting systems, the latter builds and maintains said systems, and has to pull in serious resources to do so.
For the app-writers, it won't just be seed funding anymore - it'll be no funding at all. The most they have to do is pay for some hosting, legal and financial services, but their burn rate will be so tiny as to do it on part-time wages.
As for the remainder, they'll still be operating a traditional startup with real funding needs.
- potatolicious 18y agoI don't see your model as being intrinsically separate pieces. IMHO we're already at the stage where pushing out software is cheap, and can be done with zero investor funding. Scaling on the other hand, is still as expensive as ever. Your next Twitter can only go so far on a single box, and there will be a time where it's make or break - you'd have to sink some serious money into building out infrastructure to keep growing the business.
- Retric 18y agoA single box can handle a lot of traffic. A well tuned web server should be able to handle enough web pages that your making about 1$ / second in peek times from advertising. That much revenue should let you double your number of servers each month should you need to. EX: In 2007 Slashdot used 16 web servers with 2 Xeon 2.66Ghz processors, 2GB of RAM, and 2x80GB IDE hard drives. (http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1641203 http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1641203) today that's cheep. PS: Twitter's cost's have far more to do with SMS traffic and staff than hosting their website.