What's the opensource alternative to sidekiq? I am impressed he gets this much money out of developer tools...
https://github.com/resque/resque is an alternative
How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
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Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#32I'm a fan of sidkiq but holding out using a different more atomic redis command for 'pro' is pretty lame - it's closer to 'intentional gimping' than 'open-core'.
Obviously choices have to be made, I don't understand how you can begrudge the guy his living. It's certainly better than random hot developer tool startup that takes VC funding, grows like crazy, then either implodes, gets purchased, or changes their policies so you get screwed by depending on them. With Sidekiq I feel pretty good about relying on it compared to a lot of stuff out there.
I don't begrudge anyone. You can choose a commercial license and get paid. But people don't choose commercial licenses because they want adoption and free support of their tools. I have nothing against 'open-core' with 'expansion-packs' that actually target niches and require development effort - switching redis commands doesn't meet that requirement for me and thus is fails into the category of 'intentional gimping' which I think takes advantage of your community who isn't getting any of that 80k/mo.
That said, Sidekiq is, by no means, egregious here but it's a problem which deserves to be called out.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#33We love and use Sidekiq at our org. We even released a gem for it that enables concurrency throttling : https://github.com/sensortower/sidekiq-throttled There is a bit of a feeling that the community version is somewhat 'nerfed', but it's really Mike's freedom to release the pro/enterprise version. Though stuff like this: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/master/lib/sidekiq/l... scares me~ :)
This always makes me laugh when I randomly come across it: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/659dea9601b3a283d9c8...
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#34I'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 g…
I'm just on the other side of 40 and have similar developer vs manager pains as you. Had my own bootstrapped company for several years, sold it, and lately have been working as an engineering manager at a startup. Its nice not having the normal worries of a founder but I already have the itch to do something again. Problem is, I never have luck when I go out looking for an idea. The idea usually finds you. You just n…
What kind of company? How did you get started and how did you grow the company?
I am curious to know.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#35Is this one of those "indiehacker" projects where someone created a XYk $ business over night? It's almost like those spam-adverts that you see occasionally on websites if you don't have a proper blocker " $$$ work from home, see how she earned 5000$ / month".
This guy is really beating his own drum every week.
Anyway there are interesting projects there and good luck to all the people working on those things. I just wish the advertising was less "click baity" and more truthful.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#36By the way, I punched in sidekiq.com without a second thought and the domain is on sale.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#37Is this one of those "indiehacker" projects where someone created a XYk $ business over night? It's almost like those spam-adverts that you see occasionally on websites if you don't have a proper blocker " $$$ work from home, see how she earned 5000$ / month". This guy is really beating his own drum every week. Anyway there are interesting projects there and good luck to all the people working on those things. I just…
You might be interested in reading this story. Mike has run an enormously value-creating OSS project for several years. It is one of the most interesting technically-oriented business in the Ruby community, and one whose model should be studied with attention by many HN readers.
Can I encourage people to have less reflexive skepticism about running a business on the Internet? Plenty of people do it. Some of those businesses make more money than you presently think is likely or possible. This is mostly a function not of spamminess or evil but rather that skeptics have an artificially constrained view of what is possible because skeptics have probably not run a similar business and skeptics may have holes in their understanding of how Internet businesses operate at modest scales.
Previous HN thread for additional context, including (predictably) folks who said that the successful OSS project featured in it was a) not an OSS project and b) would never be successful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6480854
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#38Is this one of those "indiehacker" projects where someone created a XYk $ business over night? It's almost like those spam-adverts that you see occasionally on websites if you don't have a proper blocker " $$$ work from home, see how she earned 5000$ / month". This guy is really beating his own drum every week. Anyway there are interesting projects there and good luck to all the people working on those things. I just…
You might be interested in reading this story. Mike has run an enormously value-creating OSS project for several years. It is one of the most interesting technically-oriented business in the Ruby community, and one whose model should be studied with attention by many HN readers. Can I encourage people to have less reflexive skepticism about running a business on the Internet? Plenty of people do it. Some of those bus…
I wasn't referring to sidekiq but to indiehackers.
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#39I'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 g…
I am pursuing this path. I'm interested in fulfilled by Amazon-type products in addition to software projects. It's truly amazing how "easy" it is run one of these businesses solo in comparison to before the internet.
What do you mean by "fulfilled by Amazon-type products"?
Re: How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month
#40I'm a fan of sidkiq but holding out using a different more atomic redis command for 'pro' is pretty lame - it's closer to 'intentional gimping' than 'open-core'.
You can fork Sdekiq and add the Redis command yourself - actually I'm wondering if someone has already done it.