SxSW 2015

from rags to... open-source?

SxSW 2015
Austin, TX

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1. from rags to… open-source? SXSW 2015 #ragstoopensource @sailsjs
3. Mike McNeil @mikermcneil github.com/mikermcneil
4. bdfl of the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
5. the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
6. at least downloads since 2013 400,000 GitHub stars 9,800 over downloads / day 1,500
7. in funding $0
8. 3 Stages of Open-Source
9. 1. No one knows about your $!#% 2. No one knows how to use your $!#% 3. No one pays you for your $!#%
11. est. feb 2012
13. (us) (customer) (Javascript app)
14. love at first sight circa 2011 Node.js...
15. so…
17. You don't want to be writing all these system calls. You need something that gives you… an ORM abstraction, or something.
18. could we use …for everything? I wondered…
21. Sails is an MVC framework.
22. Sails is an MVC framework.
23. Sails is an MVC framework.
24. Sails is an MVC framework.
25. Sails is an MVC framework.
26. Sails is an MVC framework.
27. Sails is an MVC framework.
28. Sails is an MVC framework.
29. first version (late 2011)
30. December 2012
32. >=20 other community adapters custom app-specific adapters
33. January 2013 first halfway-decent docs http://web.archive.org/web/20130514080123/http://balderdashy.github.io/sails/
34. posted screencast in early 2013
35. …woke up to 1000 views
37. reddit — Feb 2013 hacker news — Mar 2013 and again two months later
39. managed to get sailsjs.org online mid-spring 2013
41. No one knows about your $!#%
42. #sails on freenode (IRC) issues groups
43. support !== marketing but remember
44. support !== marketing ( ) but remember
45. measure things
46. Github stars NPM downloads / day Google group membership IRC channel activity Number of tagged StackOverflow questions
 (and your answer ratio)
49. ????
50. ???????????
51. v0.9 introduced a new streamlined asset pipeline
52. asset pipeline???? “what about gulp?!” “so thirsty…” asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!!
53. so v0.10 introduced generators.
54. feature requests are the hydra
55. they will never stop.
56. they will never stop. ever.
57. No one knows how to use your $!#%
58. inline jsdoc comments are not enough write docs in markdown compile to HTML
59. remain humble you’re never big enough to be a dick
60. make something people want
61. better yet make something YOU want
62. don’t repeat yourself DRY
63. don’t repeat ourselves DRO the goal of open source
64. if you don’t actually need a thing because it will suck don’t build it
65. only write code you actually need if someone else actually needs something, they’ll write a pull request only merge new code if someone actually needs you to merge it (i.e. there’s no other way, via a plugin or something)
68. we were monetized via professional services
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77. We're just giving you functions that return functions that you do things with. Doug Wilson Lead Maintainer, Express
78. A standardized interface for JavaScript functions. node-machine.org/spec
79. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers
80. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers eventually everyday backend development will be commoditized
82. Y Combinator
83. driving = bad idea
87. “Since we can execute Bash and PowerShell scripts on the machine that is supposed to run the sails app, we can pretty much do whatever we want…” contributes to Sails.js
88. “…Treeline is working with the Sails.js community to bring in JavaScript developers who could use the editor to be more productive.”
90. No one pays you for your $!#%
91. DONT TRY TO SELL FREE SOFTWARE
92. creepy
93. You can’t monetize open-source.
94. build a new product on top of open-source tools
95. not creepy
96. ALL SOFTWARE WILL BE OPEN-SOURCE EVENTUALLY
97. give more than you take
98. Questions? @mikermcneil
99. @mikermcneil from rags to… open-source? @ncrumrine