I cant't find either pricing or other hints of a valid business model anywhere. That makes me a bit wary to try it out - how long can ionic exist without income?
With the additional funding, the founders plan to now focus solely on developing Ionic further, with plans to improve gestures and animations, plus roll out mobile services in 2014 that would make using Ionic a viable alternative to native app development. Areas of focus include things like analytics, notifications, and testing service. These would help the company generate revenue from its free platform.
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/drifty-makers-of-the-ionic-...
Unlike our past products, we aren't trying to build a company around just Creator. It's a tool to help existing Ionic devs and train the future of Ionic devs, and so we want to keep it free as much as possible to just help more people build with Ionic.
Thanks for that info. Using a new framework for a project always involves some leap of faith for me. Perhaps I'm a bit too conservative there, but I hate sinking hours into learning something new, only to find out that it's soon going to get abandoned by its creators. So real revenue is great to hear, ionic looks really nice so far :)
Good luck for your endeavor!
It would be really cool to see Ionic have some support for windows. Then I could really see this being adopted at my company.
I'm guessing their experience with drag'n'drop builders for jQuery Mobile and Bootstrap led them to believe they could build a better back-end framework for them to provide a service on top of. And/or they wanted to control a larger part of the ecosystem. Whatever... It's all good.
Ionic is really nice. I've been building an app with it where I use Ionic to handle most of the visual presentation, with a bit of native Objective C to handle the bits where I felt HTML/CSS/JS wasn't quite up to the task. Even when abusing it in a way that wasn't intended i'm finding it a pleasure to work with. Recommended.