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Re:Firebase is Joining Google by sanderjd on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:23PM (#8489270)
This is a great point. Just running the infrastructure is a big enough value-add. I wonder how well this is working for Discourse. Obviously a very different type of platform, but they're using this model and appear, from the outside, to be having success.
Re:Firebase is Joining Google by tburns on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @08:55PM (#8491002)
I'd also be very interested to see how things are turning out for Discourse as a business. I've been keeping an eye on OSS product + hosted businesses for awhile (Ghost being another one now).
Re:Firebase is Joining Google by lookingsideways on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @04:58AM (#8491951)
It's not just Discourse and Ghost. Wordpress has been doing this since way before those projects were started and there's no sign that they're going away any time soon.