Tightrope Walking: Best Practices & Lessons Learned on Community and Business Buildi...

on YouTube ↗40m

" summary

Built an open source feature‑flagging platform called Flagsmith that runs locally from GitHub and serves billions of flags a month while remaining bootstrapped and near‑profitable; learned from over 40+ interviews including DHH and Mitchel Hashimoto that early tiny first commits (Ansible’s 4KB genesis) scale and that commercial open source often takes years to monetize. Chooses BSD‑3, warns about license abuse, finds most community contributions are peripheral, and treats a tiny engineering team as a repeatable competitive superpower.

AI-written summary · about

" chapters (5)

1. 0:00Start
2. 0:44Who Am I
3. 9:39Mitchell Hashimoto
4. 13:07Lesson Three
5. 32:22The History of Open Source

" related talks

• 23mScaling Open Source CommunitiesFelix Krause · try! Swift Tokyo 2017
• 28mBuilding Open Source CommunitiesTierney Cyren · NodeConf.EU 2019
• 26mBuilding Open Source CommunitiesTierney Cyren · JSConf US 2019
• 25mLessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and CommunitiesJJ Asghar · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019
• 15mLessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and CommunitiesJJ Asghar · DevOpsDays Seattle 2021
• 55mBuilding Business Around Open Source Projects | Panel DiscussionPranav Raj, Abhishek Nayak · IndiaFOSS 2.0
• 31mScaling Open Source CommunitiesFelix Krause · FrenchKit 2017
• 25mLessons Learned from Cultivating Open Source Projects and CommunitiesJJ Asghar · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019