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Making money from this is going to be an uphill battle, especially because getting people to use it is going to be an uphill battle. Looks very cool though.

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Best way to make people use it is to create a killer example app but that is quite difficult (appjet / etherpad)

If it's using node.js (or other JavaScript-based) server-side framework, it could be very useful as a live 'gist' or pastebin. Show/Review the code and see it in operation all in one place. Collections of lots of little scripts.

I'm also thinking of it as a community-based implementation of something like Yahoo YQL, so mashing together several useful datasources and using JavaScript as the glue.

It doesn't use node.js because node.js is asynchronous and the main goal of Akshell is simplicity. But it definitely can be used the way you pointed.

I'd second the recommendation that you have a look at the commonjs stuff that olegp mentions above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1262380 ) and seeing if there's an opportunity there to be a prototype / working platform for such an endeavour. (Assuming that there's a good degree of fit between your platform ideas and commonjs)

Thank you, I'll check it. Even if it doesn't fit into the basic Akshell library, nothing prevents from creating an alternative basic library.

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