Comment by its-summertime
2 days ago
> Five of the most dangerous words in startups are “¿Por qué no los dos?”.
So are the prior products going to be shut down? If not, then when? if not when, then why not?
2 days ago
> Five of the most dangerous words in startups are “¿Por qué no los dos?”.
So are the prior products going to be shut down? If not, then when? if not when, then why not?
Yeah that seems like a weird way to end an article that includes this paragraph:
> Fly Machines and our Platform As A Service features aren’t going anywhere. But Sprites was the product of a tiny skeleton crew inside of Fly.io[†], and now it isn’t.
So it's both indeed.
Well, there's doing both in terms of focus and effort, basically treating them as peer products. And then there is doing both in terms of "keeping the lights on for one, and focusing on the other".
Without any special insight into fly.io, I'd bet the situation is the latter. You keep the lights and fix security issues for the existing infra (which incidentally gives you money out of cashflow to invest in new efforts).
This really sucks. I not only like fly a lot, I have two production apps; thousands in annual creds up for renewal soon; and some mildly embarrassing discussions about migrations to have.
What sucks? I strongly advise you not to axiomatically derive our product roadmap from HN comments trying to interpret that post.
sucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites.
> [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve.
Then later
> first path [the thing I like/advocate/use] and [Sprites] ... We do one thing or the other. We don’t limp in on both. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses.
Hard to interpret that as anything but the thing I like being backburnered. Which is how it goes, but sucks.
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No. Mu. Mu.