Joel

Bro can’t e store in France

When I’m frantically trying to tell bro that the interact key on my keyboard is broken

Today we’re LIVE 🚀

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What do you think of the update so far? Had any luck against the third phase dragon?

It’s eaten all my free time whole 🥲 then they go and drop an update with these crazy new fights

Professionally, nanoapi.io

Outside of that? Writing a short horror story about workaholism 😆

That’s one thing I’ll admit I am worried about.

I think AWS is leveraging their status as a “trusted partner” to say that buying the OSS through them is actually faster than through the makers

That’s a fair point. I expect that when people call out the 34B number (myself included) the real idea they are getting at is just the size of the acquisition.

In relative terms I agree though that it should have gone for more.

Just realized who I’m talking to.

How did your experience on WP Engine shape your perspective on open-source?

Given the recent fiasco, I would be pretty pissed at OSS

Always happy to answer any other questions you may have! We had to take that leap of faith but it’s paid off 100-fold!

YouTube video by a16z How to Build an Open Source Business

Here’s the video btw. It’s by a16z (a huge name in the VC world)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9SJ...

I always like to mention as well (and it’s in the report), that OSS consistently exits at higher valuations than closed source. (See: redhat 34B, MongoDB 30+B)

It all comes down to enterprise trust, and OSS companies can cultivate that better than any other model

They wrote the code, and so are best positioned to explain and understand, and provide new features and security patches.

For enterprise scale and regulated industries; this is a huge need of theirs. They can’t just use any tool they get off the street.

Even better, OSS can better steal users 3/

What often happens is that someone steals code, for instance sentry, and then makes an close and tries to steal the customers of that product.

The customers will then go to the open-source company and ask why they should stay; they have a better offer.

The OSS company has the cards here though 2/

The short answer is: no. No company has *ever* closed down because someone stole their code.

There’s an amazing video on the open-source business model which addresses this.

The core point here becomes trust - companies want and need to trust the tools and teams they work with

The Open Source Payoff The Data-Backed Financial Case from 25 Years of Commercial Open Source

Taking your company open-source requires a leap of faith

But luckily, that leap of faith is very worth it #buildinpublic

blog.serenacapital.com/the-open-sou...

This may come as a surprise, but not much will happen.

Chrome is just the closed-source version of chromium.

Chromium has a vibrant open-source community who maintains it, and many companies use it to build desktop apps.

Both the community and money are there to keep chrome alive

Social media is like going to a digital town square.

While you’re there, several dudes in large trench coats are following you with obvious cameras and recording everything you do.

Privacy is important in real life, and it’s time we start making it important online too

+1

An analogy I like:

Pretend I give you a book, and I ask you to memorize its contents. You do, and know all about the people, plot, etc.

Then I come back and ask you where the paper in the book came from; from which tree?

You have no idea.

If I give you 10 more books, you still don’t know

I’ve been saying this for a while: social media is a public space, and should be maintained as such

Plus there are more than 200 of these tools on the market right now. Why should I pick and stick with one if tomorrow a new tool will be just as good or better?

You should definitely try out @n8n.io, it’s an amazing, more safe open-source alternative

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Live in Amsterdam?

Want to make connections in the Tech scene?

My company @nanoapi.bsky.social is hosting an event on the 15th! Hope to see you there!

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#tech #amsterdam #nl

We’re beginning efforts into building our community further.

Please give a follow to @nanoapi.bsky.social and a welcome to our wonderful DevRel/community manager Thea!

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I can’t believe it

We were rejected from a fund for open-source projects on the basis the we had taken (an incredibly small amount) of VC funding

Did your game make less than X? Then IP rights go to the publisher.

It’s still predatory but at least gives the chance for devs to have continued success

Hmm, that definitely needs to change.

I understand why holding the IP hostage works for publishers, but it would be much better to do a conditional on sales.

Bluesky #devs I need your help.

We are looking for partners to use our tool to better understand their software architecture and provide feedback.

Please reshare or send to anyone who could be interested!

github.com/nanoapi-io/n...

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Our open-source contributors just created the best figma designs for us I’ve ever seen

Seriously so happy we went #opensource

Want to see them?

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Founder Notes: Day 1000

As a founder you have one job:

Keep showing up

Everything else can be figured out later

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Holy crap

Today marks 1,000 days since I wrote the first line of code for nanoapi.io

It’s been a long road but I couldn’t have hoped for a better founder journey 🎊🍻

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