As a category, COSS (commercial open-source software) represents the next multi-trillion $ shift in software...!
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than software is eating the world! We serve 65M+ users, 700K+ 
s & 10K+ contributors — for COSS founders circa 2018.
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There’s no money in open source.
There’s only niche money in open source.
There’s definitely money in open source.
Most of the money is in open source.
The only money is in open source.
There is no money, there’s only open source.
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🔥COSS Weekly #116: $58M🔥
🏠 $25M ← Addition
🌐 acquires
🎨 $12M ←
🎒 $10M ← Coatue
🪲 $6.4M ←
🚀 $4.6M ←
coss.community/cossc/coss-wee
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That your core source code is open source has very little to do with the defensibility of your business model.
That your high rate of iteration and innovation is sustained over long periods of time, however, absolutely does.
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Open Source = Your IP is my opportunity.
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What is NocoDB? 🤔
NocoDB is a new, free, open-source alternative to AirTable.
We take the best of spreadsheets & databases and combine them into one platform. 🙌
With over 34,000 stars and counting on GitHub, join us to see what the hype is about: discord.nocodb.com
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I learned a lot from today. Tons of insight on what it takes to bootstrap a VC firm from the ground up, the history of open source as it pertains to building a software business, and why some projects and maintainers are able to transition from projects to products.
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The amount of games published to Steam using Godot has been growing very strongly these past years (5x in 2 years). Once Godot is available as supported middleware by console manufacturers (we are on this with ), I hope we will see this grow even faster..
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Though no algorithm is perfect, but I still think this algorithm is too far away from perfect.
Is growing from 1K to 3K better than 10K to 20K?
has the most stars.
has the most growed stars.
is the only one made in
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ROSS index is back but with a twist. 
This time we’ve complemented our quarterly analysis with an annual report. That’s right, we’ve listed the top 50 fastest-growing open-source projects in 2022! 
So, where do you feature? 
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This time we’ve complemented our quarterly analysis with an annual report. That’s right, we’ve listed the top 50 fastest-growing open-source projects in 2022!
So, where do you feature?
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#VFX artists beware, #GodotEngine 4 is coming!
Detailed Volumetric/3D fog, animated in real-time, seamlessly looping, based off sampling just three 512x512 textures.
The same would either cost money or not run on my PC with Unity/Unreal...
Shader setup in the next comment
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Nostr is an evolution of the legacy client/server architecture where the server owner governed the control of the data and experience the client received…Nostr makes the client as valuable as the server instead of the other way around.
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Very much looking forward to this. Kelsey is one of the kindest & smartest humans I know, and I always learn something new whenever we speak.
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Tomorrow I'll be interviewing @JosephJacks_ and discussing his pivot into venture capital and his approach to investing in Open Source companies. twitter.com/i/spaces/1mnxe
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I had the pleasure of working with Emily on 'The Business of Open Source'. Listen along here:
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(1/7) Excited to introduce Segfault, a newsletter focused on devtools. First up: I collected open source traction data from 80 startups at the time of their Seed/As to create a data-driven guide to OS fundraising and what successful OS traction looks like:
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Not a investor sadly but I do this kind of thing often and have for many years … kind of Sam to give me a shoutout.
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4/ We'd talked about raising money, but commercial open-source was really niche back then, so weren't sure who to pitch.
Luckily we talked to @JosephJacks_ who gave us a list of folks.
Network traversal and introductions gave us the rest.
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19000 ⭐️
Thanks to everyone. Don't want to say that we are just getting started, but we are. 🛠️
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This week Heather Meeker (), General Partner at joins me to chat about the legal elements of open source.
The Business of Open Source:
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So... has invested in 100+ COSS startups since 2008 (80%+ of those over the last 2 years alone!).
If this were abstracted out as a distinct fund, it would do extremely well... like a 100X fund, I think, and that's not an exaggeration. 😁
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Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? tcrn.ch/3kTZLK1 by @psawers
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Only 4 stars away from 19K on GitHub! Our journey wouldn't be possible without your support. Let's keep reaching for the stars together 🌟🦋
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@openbb_finance is 4 stars away from 19k
if you didn't starred the project already, please consider doing so - it helps a lot 
openbb.co/github
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I’m officially on Nostr. Here’s my public 🔑
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Open source will eat everything said differently…
That proprietary software has any value at all is the biggest lie ever sold in the history of capitalism, thus far.
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We're excited to announce that the most recent releases of MergeStat now include basic data visualization capabilities!
docs.mergestat.com/blog/2023/01/3
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OpenBB is a prime example of the impact of open-source technology in the financial industry. Offering a comprehensive suite of tools and resources, no wonder we have seen significant growth in adoption. 🧵 (1/9)
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To maximize digital abundance, we must maximize open source.
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I know things can be tough out there but Gartner last week still predicted enterprise software would grow 9.3% this year to a total of $856,029,000,000 in spend in 2023
Go grab some of it
Even if it’s a bit harder than 12 months ago
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Spent some time today putting together a CLI that uses codex models for natural language -> SQL: github.com/mergestat/scri
(taking what we learned doing it in -lite), but generalizing for any SQL database
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🔥COSS Weekly #115: $26.6M🔥
🫙 $25M ←
🗂️ $1.6M ←
🎩 crosses $1B in ARR
☁️ acquires ($100M)
🌐 acquires ($10M+)
.. and more!
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The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning tcrn.ch/3XGKbQh by @kyle_l_wiggers
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Did you know is a Top 10 open source project above Kubernetes, Spark, Elastic + more? Just phenomenal.
So very proud to be the founding lead investor in — stewards of Godot.
Open source will transform the gaming industry this decade! 🎮 💥
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So you get an idea of how massive the works towards Godot 4 Beta is among the largest projects on Github:
I hope you folks build a statue of somewhere after 4.0 is out.
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Now announcing...
🚀 NocoDB Feature Release 0.104.0 : ERD fullscreen, fixed row height, easy row browse, multi-file download.
Read our release note to learn more:
github.com/nocodb/nocodb/
Watch our 0.104.0 Demo:
youtube.com/watch?v=3ZY2G7
Stay tuned for the latest features. ⚡️
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