Wow Sacha Greif, a name I haven't seen in a long time!
Thank you for the good memories, I know every thing and everyone you talked about in this post. BTW, back in the days I created 2 very popular Atmosphere packages
I wish Meteor succeeded in becoming more mainstream, and the MDG didn't abandon it so quickly to go after the new shiny tool that was GraphQL
Nowadays, there is still no equivalent framework in the JS world in terms of productivity
My side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month
It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche
I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner
There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one can bring
So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm getting motivated to turn this side project into something more than this
>All of our "lightweight Sinatra(and similar) API" services eventually start to look more and more like Rails apps
Oh man, I've been working as a freelance/agency with a a team of 3 experts in nodejs for 5 years now - we've built API & products for many many clients
Our nodejs/express "lightweight" framework is looking exactly like a rails app now (migrations, controllers and models generator, some scaffolding generators)
At my company, we run 100% of our front-end React/Vue web apps on Cloudflare workers - We love it, deploys are really easy, performance/resilience is built-in
>do you honestly believe that without that rating system offered to the Institutional Investment crowd I mentioned earlier they'd be at even a fraction of their valuation/purchase price?
Standard license is $299/ mo, even with only 3000 paying customers, and there are likely way more than 3000 paying customers, that would be $10M a year in revenue
CMC is a good asset and a valuation/purchase price of $400M is a fair price for the API product only, let alone the ranking /rating aspect