Open sourcing devtools seems like a "commodify your complement" thing. A way to do that is to sell hosting. People can self-host if they want to, but some peopl

Open sourcing devtools seems like a "commodify your complement" thing. A way to do that is to sell hosting. People can self-host if they want to, but some people will prefer to pay a hosting service. This is what exe.dev is doing. Their open source devtools (like Shelley) sit on top of their hosting service and could be self-hosted. But they aren't open sourcing the software they use to run their VM hosting service.