Comment by jamie_ca
2 days ago
I want to vaguely recall that they had like 4 products in planning stages for ONCE, released Campfire, then released Writebook for free, and then made Campfire free.
Lately on the podcast I only hear about Fizzy and one other unannounced SAAS that they're putting dev energy behind, nothing about other ONCE products.
I suspect that without a critical mass of usage driving word of mouth the long tail of sales was basically nil, and long-term even fairly small products weren't looking to recoup dev costs any time soon.
Fizzy uses SQLite for multitenancy. I suppose that’s why it takes up so much of their time. Being a fan of SQLite, I hope this approach succeeds. P.S. I know Campfire has made “six figures”