Business model
Hello, thank you for the great work! I'm thinking about using opensaas.sh for my next project but am concerned about the longevity of Wasp. Can you please clarify what is your business model?
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Hey @abrichr, thanks for the question, very understandable! You can think of Wasp as of any OSS developer tooling project (e.g. Mongo, Terraform, Next, ...), which follows the similar model. That means there is an open-source, community-driven project and then potentially value-add services on top that can be monetized (but not in all cases - e.g. Django, Rails, ...) and also sponsorships from the community, which are highly appreciated (https://github.com/sponsors/wasp-lang)
Our goal is to make Wasp and Open SaaS strong and community-driven enough so they can evolve independently of the commercial efforts (like Django or Rails, for example), and I think we're on a good way towards that, although there is a way to go. But, we are also backed by YC and a suite of investors (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/04/yc-grads-wasp-land-1-5m-seed-to-help-developers-build-web-apps-faster/) which allows us to focus full-time on Wasp for the time being.
Hope this helps!
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Wasp is a Rails-like web app framework for React, Node.js and Prisma.
Develop your app in a day and deploy it with a single CLI command.
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Thank you for the detailed response! Can you please clarify specifics around planned value-add services?
no much more specific that I could share right now - we're now focusing on the core product (Wasp) to reach 1.0, and then we'll start looking more into other things. But I think the companies and projects above I mentioned should give a general picture 🙂
Also always happy to hear thoughts and ideas/insights from the community!