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Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by leerob »

joshmanders wrote: post #45

Vercel has Next.js, Shopify just acquired Remix, now Netlify Gatsby. This is bad news for full stack JavaScript applications and ecosystem. This is gonna cause vendor lock-in, it's already showing in some of them. Open source is losing and something needs to change. I am seeing a future where you have to rewrite your whole app in a different framework just to change hosts.

If you're wondering how Vercel funds Next.js, and if features work self-hosted, you can read this: https://twitter.com/leeerob/status/1619724800783712256

tl;dr all features work self-hosted

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by scubatradezone »

joshmanders wrote: post #45

Vercel has Next.js, Shopify just acquired Remix, now Netlify Gatsby. This is bad news for full stack JavaScript applications and ecosystem. This is gonna cause vendor lock-in, it's already showing in some of them. Open source is losing and something needs to change. I am seeing a future where you have to rewrite your whole app in a different framework just to change hosts.

maybe open-source should have more support. I feel like that's usually the reason people at my company avoid some open-source solutions

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

moafzalmulla wrote: post #16

I just want to know how much Gatsby was acquired for ? ;)

They raised ~$47M and it's not clear how successful they've been. Assuming it's been a bit rocky and this was a soft landing, the my ball park guess is ~$75M.

That's likely a mixture of stock and cash. As it seems to be an acquihire, likely mostly stock in order to retain them.

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by whstl »

dmix wrote: post #59
LightHugger wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's typical "buy and shut down competition"...

How exactly does Netlify shut down competition with this?

As some people mentioned elsewhere, the acquisition is probably more focused on Gatsby Cloud than Gatsby itself (which remains open source), and Gatsby Cloud is a Netlify competitor.

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by sylvinus »

Alifatisk wrote: post #57
joshmanders wrote: post #45

Vercel has Next.js, Shopify just acquired Remix, now Netlify Gatsby. This is bad news for full stack JavaScript applications and ecosystem. This is gonna cause vendor lock-in, it's already showing in some of them. Open source is losing and something needs to change. I am seeing a future where you have to rewrite your whole app in a different framework just to change hosts.

Didn’t Astro support multiple frameworks at once?

It still does!

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by corywatilo »

Netlify lost my trust a year ago when they tried to increase our company's pricing more than 10x. (We were paying ~$200/mo, then they tried to force us into a $2,500+ plan because we were 1 seat over their self-serve threshold.)

From my perspective, they were adding features just to find ways to grow revenue. (I get it, you don't have a huge moat by simply hosting static sites.) But their features seemed very out of touch with our needs, and I can't imagine we were the only ones.

As a Gatsby user on a large-scale website, I'm disappointed to see this acquisition because I'll now constantly be worried they'll try to pull a similar stunt with Gatsby.

Since then, I've been using Next.js + Vercel on side projects, and now with this acquisition, I don't see that changing going forward.

Trust and loyalty is everything in the developer community. It's hard to gain and easy to break. Hopefully other developer-focused alternatives will keep this first and foremost in their head so we don't end up in this situation with other platforms down the road.

Re: Netlify acquires Gatsby

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Post by bradgessler »

corywatilo wrote: post #69

Netlify lost my trust a year ago when they tried to increase our company's pricing more than 10x. (We were paying ~$200/mo, then they tried to force us into a $2,500+ plan because we were 1 seat over their self-serve threshold.) From my perspective, they were adding features just to find ways to grow revenue. (I get it, you don't have a huge moat by simply hosting static sites.) But their features seemed very out of…

Is there a “back to the basics” company or offering for hosting static sites that is essentially what Netlify was when it launched?
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