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Hey HN, Deta CEO here. Glad to see Deta on HN! Hapy to answer any question (although a bit sick today, so apology for the short and duplicated answers).

Because many of you are wondering about our business model: we're working on Deta Space, which helps devs publish & monetize their web apps with no ops, and we take a small cut. Deta Space is still in the early pilot stage.

Learn more about Space here: https://www.deta.sh/space & here https://deta.space/.

Have a great day!

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I’m curios: If you have funding that gives you multiple years of runway (as stated earlier ITT), why didn’t you raise the contribution to EUR 25k and turn the UG (Haftungsbeschränkt) into a fully limited liability company (GmbH)? Wouldn’t that be one of the first moves when funding is in, to give the founders peace of mind regarding personal liability concerns?

What kind of concerns are you talking about here?

UG is like GmbH with a difference that, afair, 25% or 30% of the profit has to be put aside towards GmbH conversion. Also, you’d do the conversion typically at the end of fiscal year.

For investors putting serious money in, what’s the difference if they can recover €5k or €25k? Stammkapital is the maximum liability for both UG and GmbH.

GmbH looks more serious though

Both are the same from the legal point of view. UG eventually ends up as GmbH, if company makes profit.

There's more to this than one would think :)

The front page says "Unlimited storage" for the NoSQL solution; yet the terms mention a hard limit of 10 GB. Is there a typo?

That's for "file storage", aka Deta Drive. Deta Base, our NoSQL doesn't have a limit.

How credible is this, in the long term? Can i use it to build the next Dropbox with unlimited file storage and give it away for free to my users?

I think you've got it backwards. File storage is free up to 10GB, NoSQL is free forever

Their point is they could store the files in the NoSQL solution if they so please.

I’d suspect the free tier has limited performance and bandwidth.

In the docs I see Go SDKs for Base and Drive, but doesn't look like deta-cli supports Go for Micros. Can we write services in Go?

We don't support Go on Micros yet. Not enough demand atm but we love Go and planning to support it once we have the capacity.

What do you think you can do to succeed where Meteor failed?

I remember Meteor as a framework first. Deta is a platform and allows devs to build apps using their favorite frameworks (mostly) and then deploy & monetize them without any ops.

I trust you heard "no ops" before but Deta uses a new approach that allows us to scale millions of apps to billions of users efficiently. Take a look at our pilot here: https://deta.space/

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