On: Why Use Nginx?

[rlpb]

> Every single project, open source or not, needs to have a "Why Use It" page.

Not only that, but a mention of all the major competitors with an honest factual comparison with them is really handy as well. In the FLOSS world, naming competitors won't necessarily cause a major problem and does a huge amount for trust.

[StuieK → rlpb]

Still building the "feature comparison" feature but we have the "why use it" pretty much sorted, example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we...

[byamit → rlpb]

yeah but you can't ask Product X to tell you about Product Y because they honestly don't know Product Y well enough to speak to it.

[stedaniels → byamit]

You have to ask yourself, if your building a product and you know nothing about it's potential competitors, what are you really doing? Research is key my opinion. It avoids cases of "Hey guys, look what I invented! I call it the wheel.."