Market Market competitive environment:

From 2017 until 2022, intensive growth in the demand for application development and deployment software is forecasted at a phenomenal CAGR of 25.6%, reaching $346 billion.

In the application development landscape a successful marketplace built around an ecosystem is quite typical. All major players, such as Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services, use their marketplaces as a drive to help their communities grow and adopt new solutions.

According to the statement of the project's founders: "We are the first movers within the blockchain space."

Buddy's competitors in the traditional market are CircleCI, Codefresh, Codeship, Travis, Jenkins

Official project documents do not disclose the main competitors of the Buddy project and do not publish the results of a comparative analysis of their characteristics.

Buddy knows the economy of marketplaces very well as it is already a part of various ecosystems: Microsoft Azure Marketplace, Github Marketplace, Google Cloud Launcher, and Docker Store.

There are millions of developers so our target market is huge and tools like ours quickly reach billions in value (ex: AppDynamics sold to Cisco for 3.7 bln).

Buddy’s Automation GRID is neither similar nor an alternative to any planned supercomputers like Golem and SONM. Here is why. Automation by Design Buddy’s pipelines are executed automatically on the Shared Automation GRID as the grid model is much simpler (Compute Unit usage per second). There are no steps involving purchasing computing power or selecting hardware & application types on each job execution. Buddy users run hundreds of tasks daily: the service has been designed to run them repeatedly without any user interaction. Supercomputers, on the other hand, are more about requesting completion of one-time jobs with very large computing power needs (e.g. the pharmaceutical industry).

Project advantages:

The main advantages of the project are:

Closely-bonded team of 16 working together for years – most of them partners and shareholders

The self-hosted Enterprise version of the platform ready to be used as the foundation for the decentralized application development automation.

A product that solves problems of a $110B market, including such brands as Inc. Magazine, Docplanner and CGI.

Partnerships with Google, GitHub, Docker, Microsoft and Amazon by participating in the Google Cloud Launcher, GitHub Marketplace, Docker Store, Azure and (soon) Amazon Web Services Marketplace respectively.

Buddy delivers updates to its platform on weekly basis. It’s the fastest on the market.

The Buddy platform has > 20 integrations with popular dev ecosystems, the highest on the market

The Buddy team is Docker heavy users, which makes it very fast and flexible, while most of the competition is stuck in the virtual machines area

SOCIAL ACTIVITY

Project’s popularity in social networks and at topic forums

As of July 11, 2018, the user base in social networks of the project counts over 140K users, but the audience’s activity is low.

Twitter — 28,6K followers, from 12 to 8400 likes and to 12000 retwits per 1 post, which suggests artificial activity of the audience. On the average, 3 twits per day are posted.