[mperham]

Hangfire and Oban are two other background job systems which have a commercial aspect. AFAIK Hangfire has been around almost as long as Sidekiq and is still actively supported.

I'm closer to $10m than $1m in annual revenue now.

My take on Sidekiq's secret sauce: a job system is a distributed system. Most of Sidekiq's commercial features are available as OSS gems but the complexity sneaks up on you as you integrate 3-6 of those features together. Building your own almost always leads to a worse system than the mature, well-debugged system which I have curated.

[alberth]

Super excited of you.

- Do you have any outside hired help? I see you still have no employees, but do you contract with anyone to do customer support as an example?

- How many approx customers do you have these days? $10M revenues = 10,000 customers. Is that roughly correct, if so - wahoo, congrats.

[mperham]

I’m closer to 2000 customers.

[aaronds]

That is absolutely absurd that you have built something many have tried and failed to do with millions of dollars of venture capital behind them, all on your own.

Genuine kudos to you, you should be an inspiration to any indie hacker.

[sahila]

Part of the problem with venture funding is 10m arr wouldn't be considered enough.

[aaronds]

Totally. But regardless lots of ideas get funded that turn out not to be "venture scale" and many at an early stage that do not even get to $10m ARR.