'The Cheetofication of foodstuffs-covering foods in Cheetos dust...to be some of the laziest forms of product development. If your product needs development, then maybe it isn't as good as you think it is.'
Redis' license change "achieved our goal," writes Redis CEO Rowan Trollope. "AWS and Google now maintain their own forks." How is this a good thing? Because, Trollope told me in an interview, "We're on a level playing field now; we get to compete on product." With AWS and Google focused on developing the Valkey fork of Redis (Microsoft has partnered with Redis), Redis can focus on shipping the best possible product.
In this episode, I declared to the stream that I'm done working on JourneyInbox as a SaaS product. I didn't see any meaningful market adoption, so I decided to pivot the project to serve only my personal needs.