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Ask HN: Does anyone sell containers or virtual machines?

1 points by ohiovr ↗ HN
I can stream video on twitch and make money. I can win the youtube lottery and make money there with video. I could make money on itunes. Or I could make money on the app store. Or book stores.. blah blah blah. Where do I make money with containers or virtual machines?

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yuppie_scum
AWS AMI marketplace?
ohiovr
Thanks for the suggestion. But is there anyone else I can go to? I'd rather not trust a behemoth again.
yuppie_scum
I’m flattered but I wouldn’t consider myself that big a deal
WheelsAtLarge
I ask the same. As far as I can tell it comes down to not having a business model that would be profitable. What model can be profitable to both users and providers at scale?

I would love to be able to use a chromebook and be able to access a virtual machine as needed for a few dollars per use. I don't think that's financially possible for a provider.

ohiovr
I was thinking along the lines of a subscription. I'd like to release a music software package as either BSD or GPL. As I'm preparing an installation procedure it just seems to make sense to do this in a dockerfile and sell the docker image so people can simply execute it locally with almost no knowledge of a cli. If the subscription runs out you can still keep using the docker container but if you erase it, its a bitch to get it back. Which could be good for me because they'd come back to find it even better than before and I could have $5 in my hand, enough to buy a movie ticket. So.. Before Docker goes out of business it would be cool if they would allow people to sell subscriptions to docker images, not just to the whole service.

Is it worth $5? I think so because my software allows you to arrange for chamber orchestra and at the same time, hear the results played by a chamber orchestra about a minute later.

fragmede
What sort of virtual machine? Any reason a free/cheap VPS from any number of cloud providers wouldn't do?
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wmf
You'd be better off with SaaS IMO.