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I worked at a couple of dev tool startups that required you to invest some effort to adopt and would require effort to move away from (e.g. if the company went
by redredrobot 4y ago
I worked at a couple of dev tool startups that required you to invest some effort to adopt and would require effort to move away from (e.g. if the company went under) - open sourcing ended up being basically a necessity to sell the product (enterprise sales during seed and A). YMMV, but I would definitely encourage open sourcing enough to make potential adopters feel comfortable that they won't have to do a big, urgent migration and/or lose a bunch of engineering investment if you go under or decide to pivot.