Sidekiq

“I think the business model that I have, I think is typically called open core, which is to say that the core of the system is open source and freely available. And then what I sell are packages on top of that core, or that wrap around that core, which is the p…”

“The company's just me. I have no contractors. I have a designer that I contact, you know, maybe once a year to help me out with a graphic here and there. I have a lawyer, which I contact once a year with, you know, any red lines I need to discuss, or, you know…”

“It was, you know, maybe six months until I monetized it. It was another 18 months after that to where I got to a full-time salary, and then a few months after that I started, I incorporated and started my own business, quit my job, and just started doing it fu…”

“I'm happy with the life cycle that, whatever life cycle Ruby has, I'm making more than enough money. I don't need to make any more money.”

“If I take myself out of the trenches, the technical trenches, so to speak, then I lose that sense of pain that customers might be feeling that would then go into the next version of the product.”

“One of the decisions I made when starting my business was that I didn't want to hire people. Period. I don't want to be a manager. I don't want to deal with the administrative overhead.”