I love the Chatwoot success story: > [Chatwoot] was a product we started building in 2017. It failed due to a couple of obvious reasons. [...] It was in an ina

I love the Chatwoot success story: > [Chatwoot] was a product we started building in 2017. It failed due to a couple of obvious reasons. [...] It was in an inactive mode for around 1 and a half years. Recently we thought of putting it out instead of letting the code to rust. Our idea is to make it something like Gitlab/Mattermost where people can host their own version and we will provide a hosted version for people who don't want to self-host. > After we open-sourced, we received contributions from 30 developers all around the world. And then they proceeded to raise $1.6 million in seed round. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21559139