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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by vslira on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:26AM (#25036399)
Already done:

https://bytepack.io

By the same team behind Elixir/Phoenix no less

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by monoideism on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:59PM (#25039167)
They're talking sales and marketing, not software packaging and delivery (which most software devs can do just fine).
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by monoideism on Monday November 09, 2020 @09:21PM (#25042263)
I should add that I got excited for a moment at the thought of some one-stop shop for sales and marketing for software devs building a product.

But no, just packaging and delivery. Which is cool, and probably useful for some people. But it doesn't help address the biggest weak spot for solo devs, or small teams: sales and marketing.

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by kls on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:08AM (#25045049)
Back in the days before the internet became a distribution platform, there actually used to be software distributors that acted like this, they would publish in hobbyist magazines as well as send out their own catalogs. Some were better than others and would get the small shops they represented to collaborate to make complementary products work better together. In those days you could be a one person shop and just write the software. I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities.
Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by monoideism on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:55AM (#25045409)
> I don't know how one would recreate that model in todays realities

Seems like a good opportunity for innovation.

Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by mcintyre1994 on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:58AM (#25036809)
That looks pretty cool! I'm surprised they only have enterprise level contact us pricing though, it'd be an interesting SAAS self-service product.