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Congratulations! Love chatwoot, and have been recommending it to others too. If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0]

Congratulations! Love chatwoot, and have been recommending it to others too. If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these? > ...license fee of $99 per user per month for features like customisable dashboards, SLA Management, Agent scheduling software, IP blocklisting etc which are suited for large enterprises. I see a lot of F/OSS YC startups (like PostHog, SuperTokens, QuestDB, OpsTrace, SigNoz etc) following the buyer-based open-core model that GitLab pioneered [1]. I wanted to know if there are there any other models other than GitLab's that YC recommends to its startups? Also, curious why for-profit F/OSS startups would leave up a "sponsor" button on their GitHub. :D > We started building Chatwoot as proprietary software in 2017, but the startup failed. Tangential: Was this the startup that failed [2]? If so, it would be interesting to read your views on it since it looks like except the co-founder that blogged about the failure, the rest of the original founding team is back building chatwoot? Off-topic: If you are okay, can you reveal if you've raised funds from Indian Angles (many particularly active in the SaaS scene [3]) and what has been your experience so far? And a set of recommendations, if any, for other Indian F/OSS SaaS upstarts? May be you should blog about it? Thanks. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24616169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24616169 [1] https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-source-business-strategies/ https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/commercial-open-sourc... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24988380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24988380 [3] https://saasboomi.com/indian-saas-tribe/ https://saasboomi.com/indian-saas-tribe/

pabs3 6y ago
The sponsor button means (slightly) more money for the company, is there a particular reason you suggest to disable it?
pranav_rajs 6y ago
> If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these? It seems interesting. We have not had time yet to deep dive. > I wanted to know if there are there any other models other than GitLab's that YC recommends to its startups? We have not seen any trend emerging other than open-core so far. > Also, curious why for-profit F/OSS startups would leave up a "sponsor" button on their GitHub. :D Some one wants to support us without taking subscription plans is a great reason to have it. > Tangential: Was this the startup that failed [2]? If so, it would be interesting to read your views on it since it looks like except the co-founder that blogged about the failure, the rest of the original founding team is back building chatwoot? I think you might have misunderstood, op was mentioning another startup, not Chatwoot. You can read our story here. https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/building-in-the-open https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/building-in-the-open > Off-topic: If you are okay, can you reveal if you've raised funds from Indian Angles (many particularly active in the SaaS scene [3]) and what has been your experience so far? And a set of recommendations, if any, for other Indian F/OSS SaaS upstarts? May be you should blog about it? We will definitely write about it soon.

pabs3 6y ago

The sponsor button means (slightly) more money for the company, is there a particular reason you suggest to disable it?

pranav_rajs 6y ago

> If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these? It seems interesting. We have not had time yet to deep dive. > I wanted to know if there are there any other models other than GitLab's that YC recommends to its startups? We have not seen any trend emerging other than open-core so far. > Also, curious why for-profit F/OSS startups would leave up a "sponsor" button on their GitHub. :D Some one wants to support us without taking subscription plans is a great reason to have it. > Tangential: Was this the startup that failed [2]? If so, it would be interesting to read your views on it since it looks like except the co-founder that blogged about the failure, the rest of the original founding team is back building chatwoot? I think you might have misunderstood, op was mentioning another startup, not Chatwoot. You can read our story here. https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/building-in-the-open https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/building-in-the-open > Off-topic: If you are okay, can you reveal if you've raised funds from Indian Angles (many particularly active in the SaaS scene [3]) and what has been your experience so far? And a set of recommendations, if any, for other Indian F/OSS SaaS upstarts? May be you should blog about it? We will definitely write about it soon.