Exactly, this is a form of marketing VCs found. Instead of using up say $500k on Google ads, you use up 6 months of development as marketing costs, open source

Exactly, this is a form of marketing VCs found. Instead of using up say $500k on Google ads, you use up 6 months of development as marketing costs, open source whatever you come up with in that first bit, and from then onwards you only develop the paid parts. I'm not that unhappy about this, end of the day there's more accessible code, but it's also good to see what's going on.