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by ezekg 2y ago
An easy way to automate distribution of funds to dependencies is https://thanks.dev . I'd love to see even wider distribution as well in terms of projects like OpenSSH, so being able to say "we use Linux on our servers,
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by ezekg 2y ago
I ebb and flow with burnout, as I'm sure most founders do. I also have kids lol. Happy to chat about it via email or w/e.
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by ezekg 2y ago
Sure. If there's a market that has only closed-source incumbents, providing an open- or fair-source alternative, i.e. changing the distribution model, can be an innovation unto itself. I wrote about the relationship here if you want to
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Licenses, governance, and trademarks in the open-source world(pepicrft.me)
1 points by ezekg 2y ago|0 comments
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Source-available is meaningless(keygen.sh)
5 points by ezekg 2y ago|3 comments
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You can't rely on people being good(keygen.sh)
13 points by ezekg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
Upvoting this because it made me think about SaaS and its relationship with open- and fair-source. Often a change in distribution v. closed-source can be its own moat.
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by ezekg 2y ago
tl;dr: author likes Ruby-style languages over C-style. But a blanket proposal for all languages to drop C-style is just odd.
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by ezekg 2y ago
You may be misunderstanding the delayed open source bit [0]. Typically, this will manifest itself through commits, but isn't limited to that (releases, etc.). For example, if commit A is made on 2024-09-27, and commit B is made on 2024
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by ezekg 2y ago
I'm having trouble even conceptualizing "free-riding" [0] as in speech. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem
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by ezekg 2y ago
Business has a $3M valuation with $1k TTM, but can't sell for $25k. Wild. Who even are the investors that would OK that deal?
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by ezekg 2y ago
I built this to try out shadcn/ui and to better keep tabs on new Fair Source [0] projects. I was pleasantly surprised to discover quite the lot of projects previously unknown to me, including several large ones. It's particularly
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Show HN: Is Fair Source Cool Yet?(fss.cool)
5 points by ezekg 2y ago|7 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
> Wait, this is a joke, right? Not gonna lie, I died laughing at the "Look at me, I'm the printer now" meme. So in a way, it did have a good joke regardless of how you rank severity.
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by ezekg 2y ago
What is hoodmaps?
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by ezekg 2y ago
> It's a vain attempt at getting contributions without giving back. I run a fair source business, and I'm quite heavily involved in FSS. I don't rely on free work, and afaik neither do any of the other companies currently
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by ezekg 2y ago
I'd never accept free work, because chances are it'll be low quality. Unfortunately, an email like this would go straight to spam. If you value your time at zero, I value your work at zero.
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by ezekg 2y ago
I would recommend never competing solely on price.
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The real problem with Open Core(keygen.sh)
2 points by ezekg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
I wrote about my worst on-call experience here [0]. Back in Feb of this year, I had a unique customer workload take down my SaaS in the middle of the night, 2 nights in a row. It took a long time to find the root cause, but it ended up bein
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by ezekg 2y ago
Why is your SaaS a one-time payment? That's very atypical for SaaS.
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by ezekg 2y ago
Reading this reminded me of a nearly 18-year-old project called Factor I stumbled across a couple weeks ago. They just released v0.100: https://re.factorcode.org/2024/09/factor-0-100-now-available...
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by ezekg 2y ago
I use code search all the time, ever since the beta at cs.github.com. My biggest use case is seeing how others implement something I'm working on or with. For example, if I'm trying to use a badly documented dependency, I'll
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by ezekg 2y ago
I tried the freelancer route a couple months back and it failed miserably. I think maybe I just made the wrong hire, but I spent about $10k and ended up ending the contract early because the freelancer had nothing to show after 2 months bes
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Open-Source as a Bootstrapped Company(gimlet.io)
2 points by ezekg 2y ago|0 comments
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by ezekg 2y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm speaking from a sample size of 1 here since they don't share this information (and I'm too lazy to look around at what other cloud vendors are doing i.r.t. Valkey vs Reddit). What "others" did they
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by ezekg 2y ago
I run https://keygen.sh . I don't share revenue figures anymore, but it does well these days. Profitable since year 1. I'm still the sole employee at the company (although I currently have a couple firms/consultant
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by ezekg 2y ago
Why not wait to post until after you open source it? Seems weird to post an empty GitHub repo, but maybe I'm just not in the market for what's offered.
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by ezekg 2y ago
And are you going to pivot back when the AI bubble bursts? We also saw an influx of blockchain and web3 companies a couple years back -- and that bubble burst. All I'm saying is that from the point of somebody who was keeping tabs on a
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by ezekg 2y ago
My point was that Redis' bet on cloud vendors paying them seems to be failing.

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