Open source Heroku Like Platform on premises
This looks really cool. I see from your website that you&#x27;re a YC company. Do you mind if I ask what your business plan is?<p>I feel like I&#x27;m always cautious around stuff like this because it seems to be an area where a lot of people have a tough time of making a business out of it and a lot of tools somewhat get abandoned in the space.  Flynn has been discontinued recently. Deis has been gone for a while.  Dokku still hasn&#x27;t moved past single-machine, though it does seem to be seeing more life.  Eldarion&#x27;s Kel is gone.  Rancher&#x27;s Rio looked cool, but it seems to have been abandoned quite quickly with most work seeming to drop off a little over a year after it was created (and zero commits in their repo in almost 5 months). It feels like the open-source PaaS space is littered with attempts that then went away as fast as they came.<p>I think part of the issue is that if one actually makes a good open-source PaaS, there&#x27;s little pain to solve via value-added services.  If one creates something that is hard to understand, then there&#x27;s lots of consulting&#x2F;support&#x2F;etc. money one can grab.  I guess I&#x27;m just left wondering: will this become another Rio or Kel or Flynn or Deis? If it doesn&#x27;t, does that mean that some large restrictions will happen like a limit of 10 machines?<p>I <i>really</i> want an open-source PaaS to succeed. I&#x27;ve just seen so many struggle to figure out how to achieve that. This might be sounding more negative than it&#x27;s meant, but how would you quell my doubts? There&#x27;s no &quot;pricing&quot; page or something that would tell me what you&#x27;re expecting people to pay and for what - and without pricing, I don&#x27;t know how you&#x27;ll stick around.<p>Again, it looks super cool, but I do worry about open-source PaaS systems.