Building Business Around Open Source Projects | Panel Discussion
summary
Three early-stage companies turn open source code into paying businesses by launching on Hacker News, courting developers, and offering hosted or enterprise add-ons; one project hits 7000 GitHub stars and 1,100 Slack members after YC and Hacker News traction, another reaches 20,000 GitHub stars and 7,000 teams, monetization comes via cloud hosting, enterprise-only features and paid support under Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses, contributor policy debate favors DCO over CLA and telemetry is opt-in at about 30%.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:09Building an Open Source Customer Engagement Platform
- 2:13How We Started as an Open Source Project
- 6:28Appsmith
- 10:27How Do You Monetize Uh the Project
- 13:09Did the Code Come First or Did the Community Come First
- 32:47What Advice Would You Give Developers and or Business People Who Want To Build Your Startup around an Open Source
- 45:43How Do You Protect Your Open Source Community or Company
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