For there to be 9 of them and 4 open heads I'm guessing it's probably $10-20 million at this stage.
I think the only way I'd use this is if I had the option to host it myself i.e. the code was all open sauce.
The sustainability of Dark is super important to use. We're not fucking around with customers' livelihoods.
For our early customers, we have a handshake agreement that we won't leave them hung out to dry. If Dark was to shut down, we would 100% make sure they had the time and ability to port their app off. There would be a time cost to them of course, so it's not perfect.
As we get closer to opening up to the public, we'll be doing a bunch of work on the sustainability question so we have good answers to the "acquired or shutdown" problem. We imagine a legal framework to protect customers, but haven't got the details worked out.
Re:How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms
by londons_explore on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:23AM
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A legal framework doesn't help much in the "bankruptcy" case. Unless that legal framework means all IP becomes open source and people can self-host I guess.
It looks like there won't be a migration path, and you'll need to rewrite your app from scratch using a different language. Again, it would be nice some transparency around how much VC money they've taken.