I find it hilarious that 99.9999% of web3 events are not using NFTs as Tickets. Even more hilarious is that are using Ticketmaster or Eventbrite.
I decided to participate in a Polygon's hackathon and build something that is totally free, with no gas fees and more importantly doesn't alienate non-crypto folks.
Mnesia is by far the fastest (and easiest to use) thing we've ever tried. The only problem was that it was more expensive to keep data in memory and that pointer arithmetic is so damn fast. And (the most important thing) is the 2GB limit Dets has :/
Having a small (but very strong) R&D team helps you eliminate most of these "processes". The buzzword here is "iterations". Lot's of them.
Our clients were involved since day 0 (which I think is the key of our success btw). The first prototype (built in two days) was in Erlang using Mnesia.
The drawbacks are:
+ not having lots of engineers knowing C and Erlang
+ Outsiders having problem with LISP (that's why we implemented PIG)
Yeap, the problem was the VM.
And we are going to opensource most of it.
We tried to find something that was fast, cheap to scale (in terms of servers) and easy to extend but we couldn't find any other solutions. The problem is having everything in memory and doing correlations really fast.
I agree. Nobody said that having a small business that is making enough money to live a happy life is a bad thing. But lots of us are driven by the ambition to build something bigger. That's the driving force. Not some VC.