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Yeah, 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 compa
by bfirsh 6y ago
Yeah, 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. ;)