Re:Tell HN: We've built a high-performance persistent cache ...
by bmelton on Saturday February 26, 2011 @10:48AM
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It looks good, and solid. Ignoring the salesy-ness of your posts, it sounds like you've got a feature-set worth charging for.
That said, if you have trouble getting initial traction, you might consider giving it away and charging for support / services. This will allow customers to try it out freely, get used to it, and if they like it, become hooked. This tactic has worked for 10gen and crack dealers everywhere.
You can always charge for the software later, of course; but I think the general opinion of memcache is that it's "good enough", so supplanting it may prove non-trivial.
Oh, and your logo really is quite nice indeed.
Re:Tell HN: We've built a high-performance persistent cache ...
by sagacity on Sunday February 27, 2011 @01:18AM
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> if you have trouble getting initial traction, you might consider giving it away and charging for support / services.
This is a very sound piece of advice. You should give it a serious thought.
Re:Tell HN: We've built a high-performance persistent cache ...
by shin_lao on Sunday February 27, 2011 @11:39AM
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Thanks for your comments!
You already can try and evaluate it for free.
Getting traction is difficult, whatever software you're making. We'll probably have to do a free version, you're right.
- We're faster than memcached and redis (benchmark coming soon). When I say faster I mean really faster not "10 % faster".
- We work on Windows out of the box - a real plus in a commercial context
- We offer support for our software (yeah, seriously!)
- We scale well on multi-processor machines. AFAIK that's not the case of open source solutions (it's even by design in the case of redis).
There's still much to do to improve our offer and we're working on it.