I would love to see any journal showing how profitable an open source company vs closed source one (as a software house). imo terrible business idea?
lionkor 22 minutes ago [-]
I suspect it depends on the customer/target audience.
If you target developers, open source vs closed source will make a difference. For others, customers probably don't even know what GitHub is.
spacebanana7 39 minutes ago [-]
Startups fail because of a lack of adoption far more often than by any other reason, including competitive and monetisation factors.
If your developer company gets popular you’ll be rich enough anyway. You might need to choose between screwing over your VCs by not monetising or screwing over your customers by messing around with licences.
But yourself as a founder will likely be okay as long as the tool is popular.
metadata 28 minutes ago [-]
This is not necessarily true. Wrong monetization can be the killing blow. Market can change and your business model which used to work can suddenly fall apart. A recent example for business model change is Tailwind where traffic to their open-source docs plummeted and suddenly not enough people are upgrading to their commercial licenses.
Startups die for a variety of reasons, even if products are popular and loved.
CactusBlue 23 minutes ago [-]
> After building Airbyte into a large open-source data infrastructure company...
Didn't Airbyte rugpull their license to ELv2?
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If you target developers, open source vs closed source will make a difference. For others, customers probably don't even know what GitHub is.
If your developer company gets popular you’ll be rich enough anyway. You might need to choose between screwing over your VCs by not monetising or screwing over your customers by messing around with licences.
But yourself as a founder will likely be okay as long as the tool is popular.
Startups die for a variety of reasons, even if products are popular and loved.
Didn't Airbyte rugpull their license to ELv2?