@neauoire this sounds similar to the approach the Laravel PHP framework has taken: the language is free, and you can run it on anything, but they build paid services to make your Laravel development easier
i guess Rails would be a different approach: it emerged from the underpinnings of a commercial service *not* for developers
any particular examples you're thinking of?
@CodingItWrong I'm trying to build a collection of examples at the moment(that are not video games). I don't have that many examples in mind no.