Write libraries instead of services, where possible

• jOOQ

  97 6,180 9.8 Java

  jOOQ is the best way to write SQL in Java

  

  A few libraries in the Java world have this model. They haven't produced unicorns but seem to be pretty stable businesses - jOOQ(1), hibernate(2) etc. I'm researching DB libraries for work and so those are the ones I recalled immediately, but I think there are some commercial UI ones too.

  [1] https://www.jooq.org/

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• core

  18 1,584 9.2 C

  MetaCall: The ultimate polyglot programming experience. (by metacall)

  

• LibreSignal

  50 256 0.0 C

  LibreSignal • The truly private and Google-Free messenger for Android.

  

  >SaaS turns your startup into a unicorn and yourself into a rich person. Or at least that's what you are hoping/aiming for. A library is not going to make you a billionaire.

  The article's author seems to be making indirect reference to Moxie Marlinspike (Signal) "ecosystem is moving" essay.

  If so, Moxie Marlinspike's method for becoming a billionaire by creating non-profit 501(c)(3) organization and providing Signal's source code is a very strange way to cash out of a unicorn.

  And btw... even though users/developers have the Signal source[1] which enables them to create an alternate chat universe that's not dependent on Signal's official service/servers, that isn't good enough. They still want to federate[2] with Moxie's servers. This aspect isn't addressed by op's (catern) article.

  In other words, having a library (or even the full client+server source code) doesn't really solve the users end needs. It turns out that many place more importance on the service than the library.

  [1] https://github.com/signalapp

  [2] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...

  [3] my comments about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20232499

• pygooglenews

  9 1,284 0.0 Python

  If Google News had a Python library

  Write libraries AND services, where it makes sense.

  I wrote a Python library to scrape google news [0]

  We also have it as a service [1]

  Want to know why? Because devs who can't pay won't pay. Businesses who can pay will rather pay for a service (API in our case), and not care about maintaining it.

  [0] https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews

  [1] https://newscatcherapi.com/google-news-api

• ASP.NET Core

  1,644 35,588 9.9 C#

  ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

  

  It's easy, you release it open source... Then make sure you have languages "officially" promote it in their documentation and have people adopt it thinking it's great and an actively developed project that's going to be around forever, etc... And then fork it, stop releasing security updates for the older (open-source) versions, and turn it into a product that you charge people for because corporates are now dependent on it.

  For a real-life example of it, see this blatant bait and switch fuckery: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/26489

• horde

  6 1,321 6.2 Elixir

  Horde is a distributed Supervisor and Registry backed by DeltaCrdt

  No, typically you register a node and instruct it on what processes to run. But there are libraries to help instrument this kind of behavior.

  For elixir:

  - https://github.com/derekkraan/horde

  - https://github.com/bitwalker/swarm

• Phoenix

  120 21,503 9.2 Elixir

  Peace of mind from prototype to production

  

  Anyone like me first hearing about Phoenix and had trouble finding it, it's an Elixir framework: https://www.phoenixframework.org/

• citus

  65 10,706 8.3 C

  Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension

  

  > Leaves me more time to work on tuning out database to keep up!

  As your using postgres have you looked at citus[0] at all?

  [0] https://github.com/citusdata/citus

• libgit2

  30 9,725 9.7 C

  A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.

  

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