>Sidekiq withdrew its $250,000/year sponsorship for Ruby Central

Whoa! I'm blown away that Sidekiq has enough money in the bank that one of their sponsorships is $250k/yr!

Sidekiq the company (actually ContribSys) is just one guy: Mike Perham.[0]

I listened to an interview with Mike a few years ago, and he seemed like he had an amazing setup. He was making about $1M/yr with no employees, just him selling code and contributing to open-source. I don't think he even has servers to keep online.

According to this podcast from 2023, he's now making close to $10M/yr in revenue and is still just running the whole thing by himself.[0] Great life for a solo dev founder!

[0] https://ruby.social/@getajobmike

[1] https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-661-...

Mike is salt of the earth, a wonderful man. The community is lucky to have him.

I also of course did not know the size of his donation, but it’s not that surprising. Especially since he didn’t advertise his reason for donating, or his reason for stopping (both of which are principled).