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I'd genuinely would love to learn the OSS options we'd have available here, as we'd genuinely want to build a sustainable open source project and community, whi

I'd genuinely would love to learn the OSS options we'd have available here, as we'd genuinely want to build a sustainable open source project and community, while preserving as many user freedoms as possible. I think that HyperDX is a bit different from tools like Mongo, Redis or Hashicorp in that we're a vertically integrated product from SDKs/UIs to ingestion pipeline and DBs, which is opposite kind of offering from done by the above companies (which has made them more vulnerable to the kind of rug pull you mentioned) We're trying to be permissive with freedoms granted to the user of our code, while still maintaining governance over the project to make it sustainable. We don't want to be source-available, as that's pretty much the opposite of what we want to accomplish (and is why we consciously did not pick a license such as BSL/SSPL/etc.)

candiddevmike 3y ago
> we'd genuinely want to build a sustainable open source project and community How do you plan on doing that while being VC-backed? Why did you choose to be VC backed in the first place? You can create a sustainable open source project and community without any VC funding.
- darkwater 3y ago
  Honest question: where do you see they are VC backed?
  - candiddevmike 3y ago
    It's on the front page of the app, the company behind this (DeploySentinel) is YC backed: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel. The original product seems like some kind of CI tool. Interestingly, it seems like "HyperDX" might've been part of their original product offering that they decided to open source--their main website (https://www.deploysentinel.com https://www.deploysentinel.com) doesn't include any references to "HyperDX for CI" in May of 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102146/https://www.deploysentinel.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102146/https://www.deplo.... Seems like they're pivoting to metrics? Even more of a reason to be weary about this.
    - darkwater 3y ago
      Thanks! I would have expected from them a (YC YYYY) in the title then.

candiddevmike 3y ago

> we'd genuinely want to build a sustainable open source project and community How do you plan on doing that while being VC-backed? Why did you choose to be VC backed in the first place? You can create a sustainable open source project and community without any VC funding.

darkwater 3y ago
Honest question: where do you see they are VC backed?
- candiddevmike 3y ago
  It's on the front page of the app, the company behind this (DeploySentinel) is YC backed: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/deploysentinel. The original product seems like some kind of CI tool. Interestingly, it seems like "HyperDX" might've been part of their original product offering that they decided to open source--their main website (https://www.deploysentinel.com https://www.deploysentinel.com) doesn't include any references to "HyperDX for CI" in May of 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102146/https://www.deploysentinel.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230321102146/https://www.deplo.... Seems like they're pivoting to metrics? Even more of a reason to be weary about this.
  - darkwater 3y ago
    Thanks! I would have expected from them a (YC YYYY) in the title then.