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A startup without going crazy

Open marioortizmanero opened this issue 3 years ago • 32 comments

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Mostly rambling and talking about my experience with open source funding

marioortizmanero avatar Jun 05 '21 22:06 marioortizmanero

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1438946869447692297

marioortizmanero avatar Sep 17 '21 20:09 marioortizmanero

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/pub2mq

marioortizmanero avatar Sep 24 '21 08:09 marioortizmanero

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-build-an-open-source-business-in-2021-part-1/

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 16 '21 13:12 marioortizmanero

https://vadimdemedes.com/posts/generating-income-from-open-source

marioortizmanero avatar Jun 16 '23 19:06 marioortizmanero

Typst is a really good source of inspiration

marioortizmanero avatar Nov 25 '23 13:11 marioortizmanero

More inspiration: Kahi, Proton

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 08 '23 17:12 marioortizmanero

VC funding: OSS Capital

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 10 '23 08:12 marioortizmanero

https://adoptaunabuelo.org/una-carta-para-un-abuelo/

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 11 '23 21:12 marioortizmanero

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lennyrachitsky_37signals-is-a-very-different-kind-of-company-activity-7142214613126840320-vo8F?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 18 '23 18:12 marioortizmanero

Maybe rename the article to something like:

Building a business that doesn't suck

And start with:

I'll preface this by saying that I have no idea what I'm talking about. The point, in fact, is to learn, and share my findings

So overall more about businesses than only OSS. That way I can cover more interesting topics

marioortizmanero avatar Dec 19 '23 09:12 marioortizmanero

https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-14-mike-perham

marioortizmanero avatar Jan 10 '24 12:01 marioortizmanero

-- moved everything into the article as of today --

marioortizmanero avatar Jan 24 '24 23:01 marioortizmanero

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 04 '24 15:02 marioortizmanero

https://antithesis.com/

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 14 '24 09:02 marioortizmanero

https://docs.emailengine.app/how-i-turned-my-open-so

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 27 '24 15:02 marioortizmanero

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2018/08/24/open-source-is-not-a-business-model-and-your-business-will-fail-if-you-think-that-it-is/

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 27 '24 15:02 marioortizmanero

Licensing is easy with B2B because piracy is much less popular

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 27 '24 15:02 marioortizmanero

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315701

marioortizmanero avatar Feb 29 '24 07:02 marioortizmanero

https://www.breakneck.dev/blog/no-tech-cofounder

marioortizmanero avatar Apr 03 '24 09:04 marioortizmanero

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39904704

marioortizmanero avatar Apr 03 '24 09:04 marioortizmanero

Other "Calm Companies": Balsamiq, Transistor.fm, Wildbit, Convertkit

Decisions should be made asking how it will impact our lives (stressful, alignment with values, etc)

marioortizmanero avatar Apr 10 '24 16:04 marioortizmanero

https://longform.asmartbear.com/avoid-blundering/

marioortizmanero avatar Apr 21 '24 12:04 marioortizmanero