Hi Edouard, Edouard Klein <e...@rdklein.fr> writes:
> Congrats on the launch ! Thank you! > I'm very happy to read that more people are trying to use guix > commercially. > > I'm also very happy that you chose a cooperative as a setup, I think > many problems would be solved if every company in the world was a > cooperative, but alas, the revolution is not for tomorrow. You're right, it's for today! ;-) > I run guix-hosting.com which does not have enough clients to sustain me, > and because I hate myself everytime I do any form of marketing, it does > not grow. > > I've never (apart from the few guix-hosting clients) managed to sell > guix for guix. I've sold guix to many clients as a kind of a stowaway > passenger in a different package the client was actually interested in. > Most recently, I used guix to make a complex piece of software amendable > to gitlab's CI system, and I also used it in a project that mixed 6 > different programming languages to set and fix all the dependencies to > something that worked well together. > > But in all cases, I was hired for a job, and used guix to do it, and > never was able to get hired for guix services. It's kind of a bootstrapping problem, isn't it? :-). That's one thing we'll have to work hard on at Guixotic: showcasing the added value that Guix can provide in real life applications, so that it eventually gets better name/recognition outside of our closely knit community. > I wish you all the best, and I hope you'll communicate on who your > clients are, and how you managed to sell guix. We'll definitely want to communicate that via our website, if our customers agree to it. > Looking forward to see where this goes ! Likewise! Thanks for the encouragements! -- Maxim
