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There's a large amount of software built on free time by much larger teams than are staffing new startups that are nearly exclusively remote. For example Linux

There's a large amount of software built on free time by much larger teams than are staffing new startups that are nearly exclusively remote. For example Linux has always been developed remotely from what I can tell.

eipipuz 6y ago
There might be a survivor bias here. How can we know how many similar projects didn't make it out of that cohort?
- gravypod 6y ago
  What successful oss has been originally built by in office teams? I struggle to think of things past golang or mysql.
  - UncleMeat 6y ago
    The point is that there are lots of failed oss projects. Further, a startup has a lot more requirements than an oss hobby project. For your hobby you can send an email to a listserv and say “burned out, taking a three month break” or you can focus exclusively on the code. But a startup needs to make money or it can’t pay people. You don’t just need code. You need a product and you need to sell it.
    - bart_spoon 6y ago
      > The point is that there are lots of failed oss projects. There's a lot of failed start ups in general. Doesn't seem like its a feature unique to remote-only projects.
      - UncleMeat 6y ago
        Sure. My point is that "linux exists" is not evidence that remote startups will be statistically as likely to succeed as in person startups.
        gravypod 6y ago
        Linux isn't the end of the list. You can also include everything from Gitlab, HashiCorp, and Elastic and they make quite a bit of software.
  - nwsm 6y ago
    Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes, Angular, React, GraphQL, TensorFlow, TypeScript, Android. A lot of the Apache projects came from companies. Although some of these were more like one person at the company developed it and the company funded and maintained it.
    - gravypod 6y ago
      > Kubernetes Did Kubernetes start in person as in in the same room? It was built by multiple people but I don't know if they shared an office space. I thought it was that they shared a building. All of the other ones though are pretty solid examples of team-driven OSS work.
  - vinerator 6y ago
    MongoDB

eipipuz 6y ago

There might be a survivor bias here. How can we know how many similar projects didn't make it out of that cohort?

gravypod 6y ago
What successful oss has been originally built by in office teams? I struggle to think of things past golang or mysql.
- UncleMeat 6y ago
  The point is that there are lots of failed oss projects. Further, a startup has a lot more requirements than an oss hobby project. For your hobby you can send an email to a listserv and say “burned out, taking a three month break” or you can focus exclusively on the code. But a startup needs to make money or it can’t pay people. You don’t just need code. You need a product and you need to sell it.
  - bart_spoon 6y ago
    > The point is that there are lots of failed oss projects. There's a lot of failed start ups in general. Doesn't seem like its a feature unique to remote-only projects.
    - UncleMeat 6y ago
      Sure. My point is that "linux exists" is not evidence that remote startups will be statistically as likely to succeed as in person startups.
      - gravypod 6y ago
        Linux isn't the end of the list. You can also include everything from Gitlab, HashiCorp, and Elastic and they make quite a bit of software.
- nwsm 6y ago
  Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes, Angular, React, GraphQL, TensorFlow, TypeScript, Android. A lot of the Apache projects came from companies. Although some of these were more like one person at the company developed it and the company funded and maintained it.
  - gravypod 6y ago
    > Kubernetes Did Kubernetes start in person as in in the same room? It was built by multiple people but I don't know if they shared an office space. I thought it was that they shared a building. All of the other ones though are pretty solid examples of team-driven OSS work.
- vinerator 6y ago
  MongoDB