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It is encouraging to see YC accepting Open Source products. It is generally difficult to monetize OSS and will be interesting to see how a collaboration with YC
by codegeek 7y ago
It is encouraging to see YC accepting Open Source products. It is generally difficult to monetize OSS and will be interesting to see how a collaboration with YC helps a startup like this.
- dalton 7y agoHi, I am the partner at YC who funded PostHog, though originally for a different idea. I think this can be a great business, we have funded startups following similar models like Gitlab, Mattermost, etc. Excited to keep funding more :)
- lapnitnelav 7y agoGiven what you do, do you think open-source projects ran "on premise" (i.e. with your cloud provider of choice) paying a licence to use has a future beyond the enterprise scale?
- dabeeeenster 7y agoWe fairly recently released Bullet Train as 100% open source (https://bullet-train.io/ https://bullet-train.io/). We're beginning to make it work, and have been surprised at the amount of enterprise interest it has generated. Just because the code is open source doesn't mean you can't make money out of it.