Awesome Open Source Company

This list is a collection of insights that can help building a Company around an Open Source project.

[Airbyte] What we learned from our Soft Launch - Their very first launch
[Supabase] Should I open source my company - Pros and Cons from Supabase CEO
[Dbt] - Series that reflects on the progress of dbt, from the ‘consulting/bootstrapped’ days to a fully fledge billion dollar company
[Cal.com] Open-sourcing Business Applications - The oss journey of a business application, pretty different from the usual infrastructure / data product
[Hugging Face] Hugging Face and the AI community - How they pivoted to a chatbot to the leading AI community
[Plausible.io] How we bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR- The pros and cons of being bootstrapped and their marketing techniques

[Wikipedia] Business models for open source softwares - Extensive lists of past and potential business models - Extensive lists of past and potential business models
[Posthog] How we monetized our open source devtool- Laying out 4 of the main options: support, hosted vs self-hosted, open-core, donations ; and reflecting on Posthog’s journey
[Andy Matuschak] - Meteor was a viable business, but not a viable venture-backed business - Why raising $53M led by a16z was not a good idea after all
[dbt] Pricing Vision Fit - dbt CEO on how setting a low or high base price reveals your strategy
[Lago] Open Source Alternatives do not win by default - OSS doesn't win by being cheaper

[Posthog] Should open-source projects track you? - An ethical framework
[COSS] $100M Revenue Commercial Open Source Index - A list of mature commercial OSS companies
Star-History Plugin - See the star history of any Github repository

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