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Discussion on: The Internet is Maintained by 1 Software Developer

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ProgramCrafter

Venture Capitalists have absolutely no idea how to evaluate their own investments

I believe that represents lack of tools to evaluate the team behind project: if GitHub shows "500 contributors", people don't look past that, but if there are "5 contributors", they are suspicious. In that regard, adding one community manager may have more effect than one additional developer...

Unfortunately, simpler ways to analyze communities interfere with people' privacy (or require keeping the results to oneself)...

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Thomas Hansen

It's all publicly available actually. Just click "Commits" on the repo 😉

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ProgramCrafter

Though, I don't think that the Internet will necessarily break if nginx is no longer worked upon. For a decade it might work normally, and then new (more thought-through) standards would come, making servers simpler.

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Thomas Hansen

True, but if there's a severe bug or security flaw in it, the internet would collapse - Which I think I mentioned as a condition.

Regardless, investors will evaluate your company according to how many people work in it, while the truth is that there are no more than 2 guys working on nGinx, and only 1 is actively participating. In theory the dude could start another company, and it would be worth 670 million dollars 3 seconds after he started it ...