How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
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How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
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Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#2Almost $1M as a solo founder - impressive. I wish many years of success and continued revenue for Sidekiq, and hope the founder never succumbs to the dark "we're gonna scale from $1M to $1B" side.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#3The Ruby on Rails podcast recently had Mike Perham on as a guest [0], where they talked a bit more about Sidekiq for those who are interested.
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#4I really love sidekick and use it in several projects. It's one of those gems that just feel really well put together and complete. And once you add it, it opens up all of these possibilities that you might not have considered previously.
Huge props to the developer, and I'm glad that he's been able to make a living off of this.
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#5I'm really fascinated by this career path. As I approach 40 I'm really feeling the pain of the whole developer vs manager dichotomy. The fact is, I've always been comfortable on both sides as a generalist and a team lead, but as my career progresses I'm increasingly feeling the pressure to specialize either by going full-time or specializing in some area that can command a hire salary than the reams of bootcamp dev grads + 5 years experience are claiming. One path would be to found a company and raise money, but I don't really want to spend my brainpower on pitching investors, and the thought of having employees dependent on me feels stressful. I figure I have enough general experience with tech and business that I ought to be able to bootstrap a comfortable solo lifestyle business, but what?
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#6Nice interview!
The guy behind indiehackers.com, csallen, is doing an incredible job with the site. Interesting interviews tailor made for hackers, the forum is an interesting place and it's been fascinating to follow his journey which he shares in vivid detail.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#7Can someone please explain the open-source yet earning?
Is it that part of the project is open source and the rest is paid and closed source? How to protect products if they're open source?
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#8Can someone please explain the open-source yet earning? Is it that part of the project is open source and the rest is paid and closed source? How to protect products if they're open source?
From TFA: "My second idea was to move to an open core model: hold back more complex or enterprise-specific features from the OSS version, sell those features as an "expansion pack" on top of Sidekiq. Thus, Sidekiq Pro was born. This proved to be popular and forms my business today."
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#9Can someone please explain the open-source yet earning? Is it that part of the project is open source and the rest is paid and closed source? How to protect products if they're open source?
Correct, sidekiq is open source by default. The pro portion of the code base is closed source. Sidekiq is one almost a must have for any Rails app. I'd imagine some people just want to support him and pay the licensing fee. It reminds me of how people were willing to pay for Pivotal Tracker when it was free.
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/wiki/Commercial-collabora...
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#10Almost $1M as a solo founder - impressive. I wish many years of success and continued revenue for Sidekiq, and hope the founder never succumbs to the dark "we're gonna scale from $1M to $1B" side.
Having met Mike several times, I can assure you that won't happen.