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by mperham 10y ago
Sounds like they are talking about B Corps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
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by mperham 10y ago
FYI "e.g." means "for example", so "for e.g." means "for for example".
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by mperham 10y ago
Well said. Every project has to determine their own path to sustainability. Knowing only what I've read here, I'd sell support in seat packs, e.g. $1000/yr for every 250 users. A good sized university might have 1000 engine
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by mperham 10y ago
This is exactly why I disclosed my revenue: people won't know there's a successful path forward unless it's disclosed. I want more OSS developers to follow my lead and build a bright future for themselves based on their
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by mperham 10y ago
You can license your code however you like as long as you own the copyright. You can license it as GPL and sell an alternative commercial license for money.
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by mperham 10y ago
(sidekiq dude here) I had no idea what I was doing. I found a local lawyer who incorporated me for $1000. He wrote the commercial license for my software for another $750. I had a friend who was a CPA and taught me how to keep books. I
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by mperham 10y ago
Kudos for even thinking about the long term and sustainability. So many people just create a project with nothing more than the first/next release in mind. Good luck, whatever you do.
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by mperham 10y ago
Charging for support incentivizes you to provide poor documentation and frustrates the customer.
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by mperham 10y ago
How is this different from existing multitenacy gems like `apartment`?
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by mperham 10y ago
For every one of you, there's a dozen scammers.
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by mperham 10y ago
If you google the buyer's address, it's home to a package forwarding service. Do not ever do business with a buyer using such a service. 100% guarantee it's a scam. https://www.google.com/maps/place&#x2
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by mperham 10y ago
If the master fails, your app gets a READONLY error due to the failover, you disconnect and reconnect the connection. Their network magic ensures you get the new master.
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by mperham 10y ago
I believe elasticache has its own internal HA. Your client must disconnect and reconnect if the Redis suddenly becomes read-only (due to a failover). https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/master/lib&#x
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by mperham 10y ago
Changes contributed to Sidekiq are LGPL. Changes contributed to Sidekiq Pro must also assign rights for those changes to me so I can sell them. I do have customers who have access to the Sidekiq Pro source code and send me pull reques
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by mperham 10y ago
Sidekiq fetches jobs same as how Resque fetches, which is based on what is easy to do in Redis: LPOP. It's been that way since day one. Adding reliable fetching is much, much harder than you think. It's taken me years to get it
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by mperham 10y ago
I read the comment as "simple and ease of use are not terms often associated with Kafka".
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by mperham 10y ago
Full-time. Sales are around $70k/mo now.
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by mperham 10y ago
Most buy for the features. It's hard for a business to justify giving money to someone for nothing. I'm a big fan of selling something tangible, even if rather minor, rather than just a license. My guess is that I'd have 2
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by mperham 10y ago
I hope it's working out for you! I'd love to hear how things are going if you want to email me privately.
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by mperham 10y ago
Yep, exactly. Comcast says "we can share your data", you agree because they're literally the only usable Internet offering in cities all across America.
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by mperham 10y ago
Once my OSS project became popular, I started a business and switched to an open core model. Businesses buy additional features, I get recurring revenue so that I am paid to maintain the OSS and commercial parts. http://sidekiq.
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by mperham 10y ago
Generally you license the code so competitors have a disadvantage e.g. with GNU licenses, they may have to open source any changes they make. As the copyright holder, you can do things with the code that they cannot (since you don't h
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by mperham 10y ago
Of course. I sell business software, never had a fraudulent transaction ever. But the video game and porn industries, for example? Tons of fraud.
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by mperham 10y ago
Not with MRI. The standard Ruby interpreter, like Python, uses a global lock to prevent threads from executing in parallel. You'd need to spin up 8 Sidekiq processes by hand or use the multi-process feature to automate that manual pr
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by mperham 10y ago
Good questions. Couple of things to note: 1. My paid features are all built on the core APIs that are open source. Almost every feature I sell has an OSS variant that someone has written. If you want to plug in a dozen different OSS libr
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by mperham 10y ago
I use the same open core model with Sidekiq http://sidekiq.org and it's working incredibly well. Casual users get lots of value from the free OSS version, heavy and corporate users get additional APIs and support from the
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by mperham 10y ago
Congrats, Rosie, always nice to hear about these 6 year "overnight success" stories.
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by mperham 10y ago
I'm sure it's a wire transfer of some type. No one but the gov't deals with that much cash.
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by mperham 10y ago
Sounds like Paxos could be implemented on top of UDP whereas AllConcur requires TCP?
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Debugging stuck Ruby processes(mikeperham.com)
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