<story><title>RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software</title><url>http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-sagemath-andreessen-horowitz.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paulsutter</author><text>To understand what happened to RethinkDB, you want to contrast it with MongoDB.&lt;p&gt;RethinkDB is amazing software and a real breakthrough. And the audience of deep thinking people who can really leverage the event model is ... limited. Today.&lt;p&gt;MongoDB is no breakthrough, but there are legions of people who just want to plug something together with PHP or Node. Given what they&amp;#x27;re doing, it works fine.&lt;p&gt;I sincerely hope Rethink can turn into a vibrant open source project and I&amp;#x27;m willing to donate money to that. Given sufficient time, the world will learn to use it. And until then, it will grant superpowers to people willing to invest a little effort to understand and leverage it.</text></comment>
<story><title>RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software</title><url>http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2016/10/rethinkdb-sagemath-andreessen-horowitz.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>timclemans206</author><text>The open source project that has really stood out to me in terms of funding is vuejs.org who&amp;#x27;s funding is almost entirely public at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.patreon.com&amp;#x2F;evanyou&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.patreon.com&amp;#x2F;evanyou&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the case of RethinkDB I wish they had started Horizon much sooner. Having plugins like for Stripe will make Horizon usable in the real world. I certainly like the goal set for Horizon that it be easy to extend a Horizon app by embedding it in a Node app. I just found the lack of step by step tutorial and several examples frustrating.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve just started learning about business stuff. I&amp;#x27;ve gone to three Seattle Lean Startup events. I&amp;#x27;ve learned a lot. Two key things I&amp;#x27;ve learned that are helping me are make a working engine before raising money so that money is just gas and focus on making something that people pay for.&lt;p&gt;Being involved in SMC I&amp;#x27;m very glad that VC hasn&amp;#x27;t been taken. I&amp;#x27;m not convinced that VC would make things much better.</text></comment>