Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB
I was surprised to hear that RethinkDB was shutting down, since everyone that used it seemed to like it.<p>I looked into their business model a bit more... and it was like, super difficult to figure out how to actually pay them for anything. Seems like having a push-button managed DB option on AWS&#x2F;Google Cloud&#x2F;Generic would&#x27;ve been awesome for them? The company just didn&#x27;t seem like it was set up to make money even though people liked the product.<p>I know, hindsight and everything... but without going to a page linked from a random github issue that I found via Google I couldn&#x27;t even find a page talking about pricing. To build a business you have to not only make something people love... you also have to let them pay you for it.