alt Hacker NewsAstral was building a private package hosting system for enterprise customers. That was their stated approach to becoming profitable, while continuing to fund their open source work.
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pjmlp • last Thursday at 3:07 PM
What would be the added value against JFrog or Nexus, for example?
r_lee • last Thursday at 2:39 PM
that was never going to work, let's be honest
justcool393 • last Thursday at 6:31 PM
i mean ofc but like you can self-host pypi and the "Docker Hub" model isn't like VC-expected level returns especially as ECR and GHCR and the other repos exist
Private package hosting sounds like a commodity that would be hard to differentiate.