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I built a few in the past, typically with a friend or two, but they were dying together with the initial hype/interest. So, lately I tried to focus on bigger c
by ecesena 5y ago
I built a few in the past, typically with a friend or two, but they were dying together with the initial hype/interest.
So, lately I tried to focus on bigger challenges and set up companies to handle the os project. My passion is security which I think should be more open. Cryptography is pretty much open nowadays (meaning everything we use crypto-related is likely open), but many other areas in security are not, e.g. authentication.
First project SoloKeys: https://github.com/solokeys/solo https://github.com/solokeys/solo
An open source security key, FIDO2 certified, open hardware and firmware. Profitable, revenue selling the hardware + kickstarter campaigns.
Second (newer) project Saasfrom: https://github.com/saasform/saasform https://github.com/saasform/saasform
A modern auth system for SaaS, with teams & payments. Revenue will come from cloud solution. Just started, onboarding the first beta customers.
- andreacavagna 5y agoso you decided to open the company and the open-source project at the same time right? Why Saas is the choice for the first commercialization model? I can suggest this community, it's helping me a lot on lot of choices to be made in the COSS community: https://www.coss.community/ https://www.coss.community/
- ecesena 5y agoOpen source came first, we tested a bit, then incorporated the company a few months after (in both cases). Saas as in monthly subscriptions because it helps with predictability. Meaning that if you reached 100 customers each paying $99/mo, for the next few months you can safely expect to make O($10k).