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I'm sorry but Workers is the technology that makes this all possible. I don't think I could have built this without Workers as a foundation. (I tried once, with Sandstorm, and like I said, it didn't work well.)

Sometimes you just can't advance the state of the art while also maintaining broad compatibility.

It's all open source, though. You can run the whole stack on your own machine.

by ocdtrekkie5 hours ago|

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For what it's worth, we also ran workerd inside a Sandstorm grain and not only did it work, it performed well. In the same way some people run Docker to run a single thing inside a VM solely for that thing... you can probably use workerd just to run a single Workers-based thing inside something else... and it'll probably work just swell.

by echelon4 hours ago|

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Workers is a product and you're paid to develop and sell it as an employee.

I 100% understand the hustle. I do the same thing. I just don't trust a giant like Cloudflare that has done several things to weaken the open web and establish a position that is all too powerful. I don't want to give them an iota of support. Even using open source buys into their mindshare, distribution, ecosystem, and eventual supremacy and lock-in.

I'd buy this from a smaller company for sure. Just not from Google, AWS, Cloudflare.

If this was a YC startup I'd have given you my credit card info already.

I don't know what your stock in Cloudflare is like, but your upside would be way bigger building this externally. You'd probably raise an extremely large seed round.

Consider launching your own startup. Don't give Cloudflare all the upside.

Edit: I didn't realize you'd already responded. Was clarifying my position and wishes for this to not be something made by Cloudflare.

by kentonv4 hours ago|

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I tried it as a startup once, so I know what that's like. It's a lot of time spent running around begging for money (from investors and from customers) rather than building technology.

Workers is my startup-within-Cloudflare. It won't make me a billionaire, but it has still made me more money than I actually know what to do with, while being able to delegate all the stuff I don't like doing to other parts of the company that already do it quite well.

I have a lot of influence here. The CEO and CTO listen to me. E.g. I made my argument this all needed to be open source and self hostable, and they agreed enthusiastically.

I don't think I could build this better as a separate company.

by echelon4 hours ago|

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I appreciate your extremely thoughtful answers. It greatly improves my perception and attitude about this.

I'll check it out.

I'm still anxious about the Cloudflare angle (and that's hard to shake), but beggars can't be choosers. You've legitimately built something cool and done a fantastic job spearheading that.

Thank you for the kind and well stated response. Sounds like you've had a lot of fun building this too.

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by sroerick4 hours ago|

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My approach has been an interpreted Lisp running on a web server backend and it basically does everything described here