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Show HN: Measure downloads and commercial adoption of any file you distribute(about.scarf.sh)
41 points by aviaviavi 5y ago|27 comments
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by aviaviavi 5y ago
Scarf | Senior Software Engineer (Backend/General) | Remote (American Timezones) | Full Time | https://about.scarf.sh For any functional programming (especially Haskell) fans, this one is for you! You'd be working main
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by aviaviavi 6y ago
Scarf | ( https://scarf.sh ) | Remote (American timezones) | Full Time Scarf helps open-source developers distribute their software more effectively and with better observability. We help connect OSS projects to their commercial u
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Nix core contributor joins Scarf to build foundations of new developer tooling(about.scarf.sh)
3 points by aviaviavi 6y ago|0 comments
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Are Package Registries Holding Open-Source Hostage?(about.scarf.sh)
91 points by aviaviavi 6y ago|75 comments
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by aviaviavi 6y ago
Scarf | Developer Advocate | Full Time or Part Time | Remote (American timezones only) Scarf is an early-stage startup that helps open-source developers understand how their projects are being used, and connects those maintainers with their
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by aviaviavi 6y ago
On second thought, please email jobs@scarf.sh to apply instead. :) It's too late to edit the post it seems.
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by aviaviavi 6y ago
Scarf | ( https://scarf.sh ) | Remote (US Timezones) | Full Time At Scarf, we help open-source developers get compensated for their work and deliver better software to their users. We help businesses more effectively leverage thei
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback, check back soon for the updates :)
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
I actually disagree with this. Patreon doesn't target contributions from companies, only other indie developers for the most part. I've seen massive OSS projects that only get a very small amount of donations, so it's not a g
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Right, I was addressing the fact that forking isn't even necessary here. It's true people can always go get the source if they want to use it for free. But someone just bypassing Scarf to use the source code directly makes them: a
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Scarf also aims to help developers sell open source software to enterprises. The idea of leveraging telemetry by default in exchange for payments specifically targets companies, who can certainly pay for that use case. An issue with Tidelif
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
> You'd have 100s of sub-sub dependencies phoning home. This isn't implemented yet but Scarf will batch up the telemetry metrics calls so it won't actually be sending 100's of requests in that case. > So it's
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
From the user's perspective, the price of the dependencies will need to be baked into the price of the package, the user should not need to deal with that. The developers shouldn't deal with it much either, really. Scarf can handl
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
That's a good point about this not helping people who aren't near the US financial system, for now. I'm planning a feature for developers to be able to connect a crypto wallet that they could be payed out to. Package users co
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Noted, I'll certainly be updating the copy/documentation substantially. Thank you!
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
I understand where you're coming from. I think saying it's evil and holding privacy for ransom is inaccurate though. The goal of this is to give individual developers leverage to charge companies who profit from their work. People
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Very well stated :). Scarf is still very early on and not remotely perfect. But I hope that people will give it a try, we can iterate and iterate and see if we can get more towards an open source model that works better for everyone.
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
> I make money from their install, and/or their use of the package (is this correct?) It could be install, usage, usage without sending analytics, and eventually other tiers too! The idea of the system being abused is a great point
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
This is useful feedback, thank you. There's definitely still a lack of documentation, and I'm working to improve that. Currently, Scarf takes fees only to cover the Stripe fees, it doesn't add any additional fees in an effort
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Uploading your package to scarf does not impact your code at all, all the payments and analytics is at the packaging and distribution level. Also, even if you want to release proprietary software, writing payment integrations is still a lot
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
ligit looks cool too! perhaps we should chat about collaborating? Scarf currently doesn't do much for the developer in terms of licensing. Scarf could in theory install packages directly from the registry, but I haven't looked int
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I made the choice to make Scarf a single-page-app site, so yeah nothing really works without JS. Good to know this is a desire, will keep that in mind for future work :)
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Great question. So I think this still is in the spirit of open source, because you can bypass scarf completely by just installing the package from source if you want to. For my own packages that are hosted on Scarf, I'm totally happy i
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
From a developer view, you now don't have to give away your usage data just because you give away your software for free. You have more leverage to ask companies and commercial entities to pay for your software, while letting individua
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Yup, that's the current model! But Scarf can support much more flexibility, so ultimately the developer will have a variety of options. A package could be fully free, and payment through Scarf would be more of a donation. It even could
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Hmm hitting enter for me right now does do the correct thing, what browser are you in? In any case, those routes colliding like that is an issue, I'll fix it shortly. Thanks for the feedback. EDIT: should be fixed!
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by aviaviavi 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll fix that shortly.
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Show HN: Scarf – Platform to help open-source developers monetize their work(scarf.sh)
167 points by aviaviavi 7y ago|58 comments
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A Revisited Effort to Get Paid for an Open Source Project(medium.com)
2 points by aviaviavi 7y ago|0 comments

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