There’s been a relatively recent swelling of $100M ARR commercial open-source businesses (Confluent, Elastic, Mongo, GitLab). The common strategy seems to be an “open core” with $$$ enterprise-level addons. Are there any examples on that scale with consumers as customers?
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the UI/UX in this reminds me of the federated wiki done by Ward Cunningham… how do you do this?
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The hard way, I’m afraid: just a bunch of JavaScript.
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Thanks Andy. I’ve been obsessed with tracking this for many years and am building a few things around the category (fund, conference, accelerator, media). See coss.media
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I've been very grateful for this resource!
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Some of the text regarding Wordpress under Cloud Service seems truncated?
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You could say this is also Microsoft’s new business model. They keep open sourcing more and more of their core and are relying more and more on services like Azure for revenue.