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I tried to do the same thing with Hydra/Mjolnir[1], but failed miserably and burnt out completely. Hopefully I can work up the energy to finish my Mjolnir succe
by sdegutis 12y ago
I tried to do the same thing with Hydra/Mjolnir[1], but failed miserably and burnt out completely. Hopefully I can work up the energy to finish my Mjolnir successor and sell it, but Bogdan[2] tells me it won't make any money.
[1]: http://mjolnir.io/ http://mjolnir.io/
[2]: http://kapeli.com/dash http://kapeli.com/dash
- noelwelsh 12y agoIt's a different market: individuals vs businesses. If it takes a developer 10s longer to find documentation, zero shits are given. If the website can't accept orders because the queue keeps crashing, the company credit card is going for a walk to get the problem solved. A direct and measurable impact on the bottom line, and a visible effect to decision makers are two very nice properties of a good business. Your product does look really nice, btw.
- nirvdrum 12y agoI think the license here is important as well. I know of a few companies that just paid the $500 - $750 (it's changed over time) to Mike just to avoid even having to think about Sidekiq being some sort of GPL license. If it were MIT or BSD like many other Ruby gems, I'd imagine his revenue would have dropped precipitously. Given he called the license out specifically, he likely agrees. It'll be interesting to see what his next project is and if it's a repeatable model. Asynchronous job queueing & processing is something a lot of Rubyists need and many on resque were frustrated. Sidekiq was a very attractive carrot, not the least of which because it was interoperable with resque, leading to a simple migration path. The stick was an unattractive license that was easily removed with a small fee.
- sitkack 12y agoI had no idea this existed, and I absolutely love Lua.