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Thank you!
Hello, Hacker News! I'm Elias, and I've been thinking about this problem. Developers often need to build entire companies to monetize their software, and it shouldn't be this hard.
So, I've built https://PayPerRun.com to offer a simpler solution. It's a platform where developers can monetize their services in a pay-per-use model. I invite you to give it a try!
The platform operates on pre-purchased internal credits - 'Joules'. Users buy Joules, which carry no transaction fees and have minimal latency, and spend them on the diverse range of services available on the platform. Each service is extremely affordable, with 1 Joule worth 1/1'000'000 of a US dollar.
Developers can cash out when they've accumulated enough Joules (still deciding on a limit, but leaning towards ~$100 worth). PayPerRun only earns when developers cash out, taking a 10% fee (plus transaction costs) - this is designed to stimulate more services being built on top of existing ones.
A 'service', as per our platform, could be any function or object that can be represented in Python or JavaScript.
PayPerRun utilizes a Python/JS library I developed, Telekinesis, to streamline the interaction with functions and objects running on other computers. A service can simply return a Telekinesis object, acting as a web pointer to a particular object or function. Check it out here: <https://github.com/telekinesis-inc/telekinesis>.
The website is live and ready for exploration. It's still a work-in-progress and likely has bugs, but I'm hoping this is the start of a meaningful conversation that can lead to something remarkable.
I'm available to answer any questions, and I have a couple for you:
- What service would you like to monetize on this platform?
- Which services would you prefer to pay-per-use, without subscription plans or commitments?
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
P.S. I welcome feedback and ideas - reach out at elias@payperrun.com. Also, if you're looking for something to hack, try to steal e-neuman's Joules or data, then share how you did it (that's my personal profile). Together we can make PayPerRun secure!
We love serverless because it abstracts away the infrastructure but we think we can take it a step further: abstract away the communication. Effectively, a place where you just code any function or class, we run it in the cloud, and then let you connect securely to it. To be truly easy, it has to support:
- stateful objects: you can instantiate classes and manipulate them through our secured websockets connection
- any pip/npm package dependencies: we'll keep a container with your dependencies ready to run your code when your service is invoked
Since now these services would be pure logic, we can efficiently compose them, just like with open source (pip or npm) packages. However, there would be one key difference, here you can put a price on your code. In this setup, developers could opt in to have their code become open source automatically after a certain amount of time or if it hits an income threshold.
We're a long way from the "function marketplace" idea, but we have an early version of the serverless platform you can try at https://www.telekinesis.cloud
We are looking for our first users to try our product. We're especially interested in working closely with anyone that's building a prototype. If you are interested you can register for early access or email us at contact@telekinesis.cloud
Lastly, if you share any feedback below it would have an enormous value for us. Thanks everyone!