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There's not any real pricing model that I know of. I think it comes down to a question of what value an acquisition brings and that's always kinda fuzzy. If you
by benbjohnson 4y ago
There's not any real pricing model that I know of. I think it comes down to a question of what value an acquisition brings and that's always kinda fuzzy. If you want specific numbers, the project was at ~5k GitHub stars at the time of acquisition so I guess it's a hundred bucks per star. :)
- scottlamb 4y agoI've been valuing my GitHub stars at $0. I think there are a lot of open source authors who would be happy to "sell" their project for $100/star while getting a salary to continue development under an open license. Litestream is a well-suited project for fly.io, and there's a missing factor here I still don't understand. Anyway, congratulations!
- kortex 4y ago> so I guess it's a hundred bucks per star. :) That actually totally checks out as a Fermi estimation. If you think of starring as developers marking a library that has brought them value, if they starred it, it's probably saved them an hour or so in the long run. So one benny* per star totally checks out. * Ben Franklin, not Ben Johnson, lol, pun not intended