[pier25]

All the Void Zero projects are super cool although I still wonder how they’re going to monetize all this.

[rk06]

they are going to use vite plus for monetization

[conartist6]

The vite plus idea is that you'll pay for visual tools. What's odd to me is it makes their paid product kind of a bet against their open product. If their open platform were as powerful as it should be, it would be easy to use it to recreate the kinds of experiences they propose to sell.

The paradox gains another layer when you consider that their whole mission is to build tools for the JavaScript ecosystem, yet by moving to Rust they are betting that JS-the-language is so broken that it cannot even host its own tools. And because JS is still a stronger language for building UIs in than Rust, their business strategy now makes them hard-committed to their bet that JS tools in JS are a dead end.

[pier25]

Yes but is that going to be enough?

Doesn’t look super interesting to me tbh.

[TheAlexLichter]

There will be more

[shawn_w]

Why should it be monetized?

[leosanchez]

IIRC they tool VC money

[pier25]

It’s a private company with VC money.

[carlos22]

in the beginning yes, but VCs want to cash out eventually. Look at mongodb, redis and whatnot that did everything to get money at a certain point. For VCs open source is a vehicle to get relevant in a space you would never be relevant if you won't do open source.