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> if your company was capable of creating a better solution to this standard problem, why wouldn't you be selling it?

Let's pretend I'm the greatest DevOps software developer engineer ever, and I write a Kubernetes replacement that's 100x better. Since it's 100x better, I simply charge 100x as much as it costs per CPU/RAM for a Kubernetes license to a 1,000 customers, and take all of that money to the bank and I deposit my check for $0.

I don't disagree with the rest of the comment, but the market for the software to host a web app is a weird market.

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mdaniel 3 months ago | parent [-]

> and I deposit my check for $0.

Given the number of Nomad fans that show up to every one of these threads, I don't think that's the whole story given https://www.hashicorp.com/products/nomad/pricing (and I'll save everyone the click: it's not $0)

Reasonable people can 100% disagree about approaches, but I don't think the TAM for "software to host a web app" is as small as you implied (although it certainly would be if we took your description literally)

	▲	fragmede 3 months ago \| parent [-]
		fly.io, vercel, and heroku shows you're right about the TAM for the broader problem, and that it's possible to capture some value somewhere, but that's a different beast entirely than just selling a standard solution to a standard problem. Developers are a hard market to sell to, and deployment software is no exception.