Things I'd like to do

[joshmn]

I have an itch to make Caffeinate a lot better, but I'm struggling to find the time to do so.

I really like Fibery's pricing for startups: https://fibery.io/startup-program, which is "free, if your revenue is less than ours."

I've ran with the idea of making the licensing similar: "free, if your startup's revenue is less than what I make, or $xx/year".

This would allow me to allocate some time for more advanced features, like removing the dependency on ActionMailer and allowing for non-mailing thingies, an optional standalone processor so you don't need to tie it in with your background processor, a JSON API, and more.

Caffeinate is currently the most popular gem for managing email sequences and I'd love to keep it that way. At the same time, Caffeinate is stable, widely-used, and people are happy with it. I don't currently have a need for any of the features above, but others have expressed their desire for them to me, so I'm constantly thinking about it.

Ideas and thoughts are welcome.

[erwin]

Do you have any large enterprises that you know of that are already relying on Caffeinate?

[joshmn]

@erwin there is a large realty company that uses it with great success, and it was used at AngelList for a bit — not sure if they're still using it, I think they went to some paid tool.

Happy to chat more and answer any burner questions; email is in the gemspec :)