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Because late stage open source capitalism is now bypassing the messy business of building something popular and going straight open-core/vercel-model on the bac
by popcorncowboy 2y ago
Because late stage open source capitalism is now bypassing the messy business of building something popular and going straight open-core/vercel-model on the back of already popular libraries and frameworks. The emerging playbook is:
- Find successful open source project
- Fork with "reasons"
- Pour VC into helpful features, great docs, DX and evangelism
- Run the Vercel playbook
We're gonna see a lot more of this.
- n3storm 2y ago- Create a marketplace with pro (payed) version of all packages
- vram22 2y agoInteresting. Got more examples of this playbook?
- gnuly 2y agoI can think of: Sqlite -> Turso PostgreSQL -> Neon Chromium -> Arc browser not exactly fork, but aimed at riding popularity of an already-established thing: Nodejs -> Bun
- SJC_Hacker 2y agoIRC -> Discord
- no_wizard 2y agoIRC -> Slack Early slack actually supported being used by 3rd party IRC clients
- jsk2600 2y ago>- Find successful open source project - Fork with "reasons" To be fair, Vercel did not 'find&fork' Next.JS, they are the authors of the framework.
- gnuly 2y agothey probably intend its relation to React.
- azinman2 2y ago“late stage open source capitalism” Considering the GNU manifesto is from 1985 I guess we’ve gone through multiple stages quickly. What were they?