<story><title>Twenty-five years of curl</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth imagining if curl was invented today...&lt;p&gt;How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?&lt;p&gt;How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?&lt;p&gt;The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?&lt;p&gt;Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?&lt;p&gt;The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?&lt;p&gt;What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?&lt;p&gt;How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?&lt;p&gt;How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?&lt;p&gt;Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siva7</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a business consultant and surprised how Daniel missed a big opportunity here. He should start selling to big enterprises by making curl a subscription-based model. Then he could hire thousands of developers to support him so he never has to do the grunt work himself and completely focus on monetization strategy and a rewrite in nextjs. Then he could start an ad-based model in partnership with Facebook for free use to support the free tier. Daniel, if you&amp;#x27;re reading this contact me. We can make a good deal.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twenty-five years of curl</title><url>https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/20/twenty-five-years-of-curl/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>keyle</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s worth imagining if curl was invented today...&lt;p&gt;How large would the team be behind it? How many stars on Github? How many open pull-requests?&lt;p&gt;How big would the patreon be? The Github sponsors? What Fortune100 would sponsor it?&lt;p&gt;The open issues count? The build steps? The installer packages? The docker image? The docker-compose? The rust rewrite?&lt;p&gt;Wiki pages? The reactjs website? The nextjs rewrite? The CSS framework that would be born from the rewrite?&lt;p&gt;The incomplete documentation, because of the Discord? How big would the Discord be? What about the subreddit born to cry about the lack of documentation because of the Discord?&lt;p&gt;What about the startup that would offer you curl as a service? Curl as a lambda? Curl one click install in CPanel?&lt;p&gt;How many milliseconds would curl take to just start up? How much RAM would it take?&lt;p&gt;How many developer resume would claim to be proficient at curl?&lt;p&gt;Somethings are amazing because they were made at a time where things were simply made... Not taking a stab at anyone or anything in particular, just reminiscing and imagining...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>latency-guy2</author><text>Postman somehow is a business and I am perplexed every day.</text></comment>