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Comment by mrtksn

2 months ago

What is Deno's business model? How do you build business around a JS runtime? What to they pitch to the early investors even?

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embedding-shape  2 months ago

> What is Deno's business model? How do you build business around a JS runtime?

Everything else. Seems everyone and their mother are building "platforms", so they can properly lock you in, look at Vercel for example, to get some inspiration where the rest is probably at least aiming.

Not sure why people keep falling for it though, guess it's easy enough to get started that people don't really want to understand deeper, if you can pay someone $XXX/month to not have to think about it, many people tend to go that route, especially if VC-infested.

  • pjmlp  2 months ago

    The problem is that outside big corporations, devs nowadays aren't willing to pay for development tooling, although we surely like to be paid.

    Thus platforms and SaaS products, seem to be the only way to make sustainable open source products.

    • re-thc  2 months ago

      > devs nowadays aren't willing to pay for development tooling

      I can't speak generally because it varies but is this really the case here? Other posters have commented on missing features and issues with their product i.e. Deno Deploy so is it not willing to pay or not worth it?

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