[ChrisMarshallNY]

Cool! I wish you luck.

I have authored one project that took ten years to reach maturity (It is now exploding). That allowed me to iterate it, and ensure that it would be top-quality, by the time I tossed the reins over to a new team.

It was free, though, and a labor of love[0].

I wrote another project as a "training course." It was sort of a dissertation. The quality is pretty much "off the charts."

I had originally thought about selling it, but was told that was a non-starter, because it was written in in PHP[1], so I simply open-sourced it as MIT.

Nowadays, I work on client-side code (native Swift for Apple stuff). I am not in a hurry to get back to SaaS.

I like the name of the blog.

[0] https://medium.com/@ChrisMarshallNY/the-story-of-the-bmlt-87...

[1] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

[ruste]

Interested in why writing it in PHP made selling it a non-starter. I'd expect that if it provided value it wouldn't really matter much what it was written in.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Because PHP is not "buzzword-worthy." I was told, in no uncertain terms, that the fact it was written in PHP would mean that "no one would take it seriously," and that I would not get anyone interested in implementing it.

Considering the lack of interest in the project, I have to agree with that assessment.