[hn_throwaway_99]

When shit like this happens, I just always think "I don't understand finance at all and never will."

I read the company's primary blog blog post, https://buf.build/blog/api-design-is-stuck-in-the-past, about "schema driven development" and agree with a lot of it. Which is why I'm a huge fan of GraphQL and related completely free open source libraries, where I define my API endpoints with a strongly typed yet easily evolvable schema, and auto-generate my Typescript types from my GraphQL definitions.

$93 million dollars is just nuts to me.

[anonymouse008]

I was just about to ask ‘what are the differences between this and GraphQL?’ Maybe tag on an AWS AppSync & DynamoDB, and you have pretty much all of this?

And before anyone goes all ‘but what about Dropbox?’ when scrutinizing this idea... Dropbox was never really made for technical people, this is squarely at people who know what JSON means, so technical.

[xyzzy_plugh]

> Which is why I'm a huge fan of GraphQL and related completely free open source libraries

I don't understand this comparison. Apollo raised $130M this past summer -- doesn't seem that different to TFA. Is that also nuts to you?

The Protocol Buffers and gRPC ecosystem are also completely free open source libraries. Replace GraphQL with Protobuf and your post is still correct.

[hn_throwaway_99]

> Apollo raised $130M this past summer -- doesn't seem that different to TFA. Is that also nuts to you?

Yes, absolutely. I love the Apollo open source libs, and I can currently see how many customers would choose to pay for their services, but yes, I think $130 million is also nuts.

Note I did preface my comment with "I don't understand finance at all and never will." so I'm certainly not saying I'm right here.

[webinvest]

At some point that money will have to be paid back — with interest… but from where? It can’t be free forever.