Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
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Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#2Could someone explain what Gatsby's path is to eventually making a lot of money? I'm always a bit wary of open source frameworks that claim to be all about their community getting funded with lots of venture capital.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#3I just don't get Gatsby. It feels over-engineered for the small static site use cases it is the best tool for and definitely not a good alternative to dynamically generated pages from other frameworks like Next.js, Rails, Django, etc. Maybe the engineers that preceded me on the Gatsby project I worked on took a wrong turn but we ended up with long build times and ever growing complexity around the create pages function. I just couldn't figure out what value Gatsby was supposed to be delivering that was better than any of its competitors.
Gatsby has slick looking docs and a lot of VC money and as far as I can tell a painful development experience. For most use cases you'll still have to write a backend API to handle form submissions, 3rd party calls and other Ajax. What does Gatsby actually do other than package together a bunch of trendy web technologies with Wieden Kennedy designed documentation?
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#4Could someone explain what Gatsby's path is to eventually making a lot of money? I'm always a bit wary of open source frameworks that claim to be all about their community getting funded with lots of venture capital.
This is it: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
SaaS for deploying and running Gatsby sites, with add-ons, competitive with Netlify and Vercel.
As more companies use Gatsby, they (and the VCs) are making a bet that some meaningful percentage of them are willing to pay money if it means reducing their development or maintenance burdens.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#5Could someone explain what Gatsby's path is to eventually making a lot of money? I'm always a bit wary of open source frameworks that claim to be all about their community getting funded with lots of venture capital.
Provide gatsby services and tooling for enterprise customers, something along the lines of the wordpress ecosystem?
Seems like they're going the way of meteor though, so who knows.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#6Gatsby.js raised money, Next.js raised money, and then Gatsby.js raised even more money.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#7it's kind of ironic that the main value proposition of static site generators like Gatsby is that it's just a file so it's portable and you can take them anywhere, instead of getting locked into server/client based database systems, yet here they are, trying to monetize by building the "the best way to build and maintain Gatsby sites".
From my point of view, if they succeed in achieving that goal, that means Gatsby the open source project has failed, because it contradicts its purpose.
I can understand them raising a few million dollars, but $28M? Not so sure, I actually think the VC money will do more harm than good.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#8Gatsby.js raised money, Next.js raised money, and then Gatsby.js raised even more money.
Thanks for pointer to the next.js raise, this significantly increases the odds I'll use them - the last few times I'd checked the project's commit history, it looked like the lion's share were from one guy who could disappear at any time due to a better job, a girlfriend, or getting hit by a bus.
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#9it's kind of ironic that the main value proposition of static site generators like Gatsby is that it's just a file so it's portable and you can take them anywhere, instead of getting locked into server/client based database systems, yet here they are, trying to monetize by building the "the best way to build and maintain Gatsby sites". From my point of view, if they succeed in achieving that goal, that means Gatsby t…
That's just going with the WordPress model. You can install WP anywhere, but for convenience you can pay a small fee and speed things up.
But I also think that 28mill is outrageously lot of money for what the service is. True SV scale :)
Re: Gatsby raises $28M Series B led by Index Ventures
#10I just don't get Gatsby. It feels over-engineered for the small static site use cases it is the best tool for and definitely not a good alternative to dynamically generated pages from other frameworks like Next.js, Rails, Django, etc. Maybe the engineers that preceded me on the Gatsby project I worked on took a wrong turn but we ended up with long build times and ever growing complexity around the create pages functi…
> Gatsby has slick looking docs
I think you might be on to something; I don't even bother with projects without good docs or a readme.
Edit: Not sarcasm. I value my time.