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Their monetization strategy is pretty critical for people who’d sink their time into the service and entrust it with the code for long-running projects. So… how

Their monetization strategy is pretty critical for people who’d sink their time into the service and entrust it with the code for long-running projects. So… how do they plan on making money off of this? If they can’t or won’t say, what sort of projects do they imagine they’d attract in spite of that? (e.g. ephemeral ones? Data sets about current events?) Downvoters: do you not think their monetization strategy is important to potential users? Surely their investors didn’t throw that money at them out of the goodness of their hearts, and surely it’s apparent how that could affect their users in the long run.

beardicus 3y ago
this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, effort, and compensation?
- chefandy 3y ago
  > this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, effort, and compensation? Crunchbase said they raised at least 12m as a “fully decentralized code repository”. I’d say presenting your open source project without saying it’s VC-backed is the only “VC-Brained” thing happening here.
- couchand 3y ago
  Incredible. They throw some indie-sounding buzzwords out and that's enough to make the business model unimpeachable? Over the past few decades we've seen many cynical capitalists riding the wave of "peer to peer open source" for personal gain. It's absolutely within scope to discuss how a company's business model may affect their ability to deliver on the supposed mission.
  - chefandy 3y ago
    I imagine the person responding to my initial comment just didn't realize it was a VC-backed business rather than a regular FOSS project. The repo readme doesn't seem to indicate otherwise, so I can see why they'd have gotten that impression.
- Klonoar 3y ago
  You are commenting on the hype channel of one of the biggest VC firms in the world. (there was a time _when that comment was the default type around here_, actually)
  - chefandy 3y ago
    That aside, it's also a VC-backed startup. I've been burned enough times by "we promise we're going to be the good kind of corporate!" types to ask upfront now if a big chunk of someone else's money is funding something that doesn't charge their users anything.

beardicus 3y ago

this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, effort, and compensation?

chefandy 3y ago
> this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, effort, and compensation? Crunchbase said they raised at least 12m as a “fully decentralized code repository”. I’d say presenting your open source project without saying it’s VC-backed is the only “VC-Brained” thing happening here.
couchand 3y ago
Incredible. They throw some indie-sounding buzzwords out and that's enough to make the business model unimpeachable? Over the past few decades we've seen many cynical capitalists riding the wave of "peer to peer open source" for personal gain. It's absolutely within scope to discuss how a company's business model may affect their ability to deliver on the supposed mission.
- chefandy 3y ago
  I imagine the person responding to my initial comment just didn't realize it was a VC-backed business rather than a regular FOSS project. The repo readme doesn't seem to indicate otherwise, so I can see why they'd have gotten that impression.
Klonoar 3y ago
You are commenting on the hype channel of one of the biggest VC firms in the world. (there was a time _when that comment was the default type around here_, actually)
- chefandy 3y ago
  That aside, it's also a VC-backed startup. I've been burned enough times by "we promise we're going to be the good kind of corporate!" types to ask upfront now if a big chunk of someone else's money is funding something that doesn't charge their users anything.