lazlo_kovacs

Yes, I'm well aware. To be honest I was pleasantly surprised with Remix because of my negative experiences with React Router. But now it seems like they've gone back to churn and cheery messages claiming that this is the best iteration, just please ignore the last 4 attempts.

I never understood the appeal of React Router, the simplest library to get rewritten 5+ times, each time forcing their users to learn a new way of doing routing. It never worked that well either in my experience. The authors seemed addicted to churn and complexity.

I do enjoy Remix though. It works well and the various stacks help you get started pretty quickly. So why take the framework that's well respected and loved, and combine it with the library that's known for its churn? That seems like a lose-lose. You create yet another change for people still on React Router and lose the Remix brand.

Did the Vercel people manage to execute a psyop on Remix? This doesn't feel like the move.

It appears from their repo that they have 5-6 people working full time on this. Assuming about 250k per developer that puts their burn at 6 * 250k = 1.5 million a year. So yeah they have some time. Although I would be severely concerned at their progress considering it’s already been a year and they don’t seem to have shipped much. No proof of PMF or any sort of revenue with over a third of their runway depleted should have them hustling to get on the boards.

Except how many users do they have? If I were a VC fund looking to give them another round, I’d want to know their metrics, whether that’s users, downloads, or revenue. Judging by their blog, it’s been a year since they raised the money. Have they produced anything other than a bunch of code? Because code isn’t worth much without users.