Looks like CDN with Serverless edge functions.

https://deno.com/deploy

Heroku doesn't (yet) officially support Deno. That's the main reason I don't use Deno for my personal site. So I'd say there's a market there.

> Sounds to me that they will build some sort of hosted service or maybe PaaS based on the Deno runtime (like AppEngine or AWS lambda)

or like Joyent

How did Joyent manage to turn Nodejs into money though? I mean weren't they mostly selling unix services?

looks like a crowded space.

vc's will issue course correction very soon.

looks like a repeat of docker.

In other words, capitalise on the decreasing quality of software engineers by offering services to them at a high price because they don't have the ability to make any of these services themselves.

This is a rather naive take I think..

There's a semi-joke that goes "all companies are software companies now" but there is a lot of truth to that..

It comes to down where a company wants to put its effort.

Do you want to own/operate/maintain all your infrastructure and services (and all the challenges that come with retaining scarce talent that is capable of that work), requiring you to substantially invest in an area that is not core to your business?

Or do you want to spend that money (and let's be real, less money too) to pay a trusted third party provider who will do a better job than you would anyways, because that's their area of expertise?

Then you can focus your (likely limited) resources on delivering value to your business instead.