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> it's perhaps all about who one knows and making sure that everyone gets to tell a story of successful exits. No. It's all about building a great product that
by thethimble 4mo ago
> it's perhaps all about who one knows and making sure that everyone gets to tell a story of successful exits.
No. It's all about building a great product that people love. Vite is a foundational tool in the JS ecosystem.
Acquihiring the tool/team is entirely downstream from creating a foundational product.
- seanclayton 4mo agoVite isn't a product. It's a tool. It will be succeeded if necessary. It happened to Webpack after Microsoft hired the creator, and the JS community pivoted hard. Bundlers and compilers in the JS world happen once a decade it appears.
- sophacles 4mo agoI was at the hardware store this morning. I bought a hammer. It sure seemed like a product... with the whole "being displayed on store shelves" and "available for purchase" thing. There were several different hammers there, bearing different branding and having different manufacturers. I don't quite get the distinction...
- senordevnyc 4mo agoYou paid for the hammer. Did you pay for Vite?
- Shorn 4mo agothey will soon
- pjmlp 4mo agoDid you pay for the hammer with a pull request?
- sofixa 4mo ago> No. It's all about building a great product that people love. Vite is a foundational tool in the JS ecosystem. A foundational tool in an open ecosystem doesn't mean a monetisable product. I struggle to think of even a single example of a foundational tool with a business model. And of course, not everything needs a business model. But if you're getting VC funding, you kind of need one.
- benoau 4mo agoThis is the kind of problem I think only UBI solves because there is no apparent business model that can sustain ~20 employees working on software like this, they need to make at least a couple million a year to pay those people!