Speaking of a high-end user base, adding first-class support for SQL would probably triple Meteor/Galaxy’s revenue.
There is a worldview-bubble here – forum participants do not represent the wider world of companies that depend almost exclusively on “classic” SQL databases. That wider world, measured in budget dollars, is at least 1,000 bigger than the Mongo/Apollo world. Customers of that type have different sensibilities than often found in these forums, but those are exactly the sensibilities that Meteor originally appealed to. We are legion, and we:
- Spend virtually no time in forums
- Don’t want to “look under the hood”
- Don’t care about the JS library du jour
- Want ease-of-use, and to save time
- Regard $100/month, for a service, as a rounding error
MDG has been fascinating via its mix of brilliant tech and terrible strategy. How did you lose Arunoda, a 20x dev and evangelist? A blunder for the ages. Next time, try money. (smh)
The original MeteorJS strategy was brilliant: among other things, it convinced VCs to part with 30 MILLION DOLLARS (Apollo came later). As you observed, htchd7, the project has since drifted away from the original, excellent thesis.
I urge the new owners to research and survey this much broader market, which has more customers AND more money (smh again). Were it possible to do so, I would eagerly invest money towards the above sentiments.