The Elements Business

In this video the founder of Elements tells where Elements came from, explains how Elements gets paid, and invites you to try it and start a discussion. ## Where Elements came from Elements started in 2012 as a new HTML language and grew from there. The first version of Elements ran a fintech company that processed hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions. Elements later became its own company, raised funding, and is now available to you. The [history page](/history) tells more of the story. ## How Elements gets paid Elements charges for the tooling, not the framework. Licensing is per machine, paid monthly, and the first purchase covers two licenses: one for your development machine and one for a deployment machine. The price is predictable per month, not based on usage or other metered variables. See [pricing](/pricing) for the current price. The code you build is yours, and the runtime packages your app runs on, such as `@elements/app`, are MIT licensed ([licenses](/learn/man/licenses)). You are not locked in if you ever stop using the tooling. ## Try Elements Start with the free trial at [elements.dev/install](/install), and start a discussion thread in your welcome thread or on [Discuss](/discuss). Say what you are trying to build, and we will help you succeed.

Thanks, guys, for watching this series, and I hope it was helpful in getting you up and running with Elements and showing you a bit around what's possible. I've been working on Elements for over a decade now. It started in 2012 as a new HTML language, and it evolved from there until eventually I became the chief technology officer of a fintech company where we were processing hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions, and that was built on the first version of Elements. A couple of years later, I spun Elements out into its own company. I raised funding, and several years after that, I am now bringing it to you. So I'm very excited to do that. And the business for Elements is straightforward.

We get paid on a monthly basis for the tooling for the number of machines that you have. When you make your initial purchase, you're going to get two licenses for the price of one so that you can have a laptop or your development machine and one deployment machine. And then each additional machine that you add after that is a new license. The code that's produced is, of course, yours. And all the runtime packages that are used to make your application run are MIT licensed so that you're not locked into our ecosystem if you ever want to walk away from the tooling. It's very important to me that we get paid for making the best tooling in the world, not for trapping you inside of our ecosystem.

So I really hope you give Elements a try. You can get a free trial for a couple of weeks and make sure that it works for you. I'd really love to hear from you. So at the very least, sign up and start a discussion thread with me. Tell me a little bit about what you're trying to achieve and I'll do everything I can to make you successful. Thanks a lot.