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by jagged-chisel 1392 days ago
I mean, they're selling something. According to the TFA, it's an abstraction that may or may not use a backend message queue, but your app shouldn't care. So they're not selling a message queue, but they're selling something.
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Sure am, but chiselstrike is OSS as well. So no different than any OSS project with a monetization strategy. (github.com/chiselstrike/chiselstrike)
But what's the issue with making a post and discussing how a product one made solves an issue? GPT-3 and DALL-E are both products with a pay-per-play model. So is AWS and S3. We talk about those things all the time with no scrutiny or suspicion.