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Is Apollo making money? If so, how? Did Meteor make money? If so, how?

They make money from Apollo Engine, which I think is now called Apollo Platform.

Edit: Looks like it's called Graph Manager now: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/graph-manager/

I still don't understand where the money exchanges hands, here. To my understanding, GraphQL is just a query specification. If the money is in hosting, and it becomes moderately successful, they risk becoming Amazon'd.

Amazon already has a product based off Apollo. But MDG makes money of apollo by selling graphql monitoring and analytic tools for your Apollo apps.

Pricing here https://www.apollographql.com/pricing/

I guess some people pay the $49/mo?

No idea about adoption, but this was one way to monetize: https://www.meteor.com/hosting

They were also following the "Get lots of hype, sell pdfs" model for a while.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, Meteor never sold any PDFs?

http://www.discovermeteor.com/

Discover Meteor was promoted by MDG because they thought it was a good resource, but it was never part of MDG itself, it was wholly independent even if one of the authors did go on to work for MDG afterwards.

Source: I wrote that book.

Thank you for writing that book.

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