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Congrats on the launch! What's the business concept behind the tool? Can't find anything on the homepage, or in the post. I didn't know YC funded opensource too
by gitgud 6y ago
Congrats on the launch! What's the business concept behind the tool? Can't find anything on the homepage, or in the post. I didn't know YC funded opensource tools like this, it's kind of refreshing.
- bfirsh 6y agoYeah, YC is funding lots of open source projects. PostHog[0] was in our batch. GitLab, Docker, Mattermost, and CoreOS come to mind as other open source YC companies. There are a number of businesses we could build around the project. A cloud service or enterprise products/support are the obvious ones. Right now, we're focused on community building, because a potential open source business can't be successful with a healthy open source project. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732
- gitgud 6y ago> There are a number of businesses we could build around the project. So you got funding from YCombinator without a concrete plan to make a business? That's pretty interesting, I always thought they wanted profitable businesses, and turned down ideas they didn't think would work. Great to hear they're betting on open-source more!
- bfirsh 6y agoFunnily we applied with a different thing. We tried a number of different ideas before we settled on this lower-level thing, as I describe in the main comment. Even still, I think most people apply to YC without a concrete plan of how to make a business. It's normally so early stage, that the plan is yet to be validated and will probably change. A "plausible" plan is perhaps a better way to put it. ;)