Case Studies
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You Can’t Build an Open Source Business Blind: Stirling PDF Case Study
StirlingPDF is one of the largest PDF platforms on GitHub, with an open-source core and an enterprise offering around it. Their platform includes:
Building a Predictable ICP: How Liquibase uses Scarf for GTM Operations
Liquibase is the open source standard for automating database change, with more than 100 million downloads and a community that has been growing for over a decade. Teams adopt Liquibase Community to keep database schema changes in lockstep with fast-moving application releases, then graduate to Liquibase Secure when they need governance, compliance, and control at scale.
From “Flying Blind” to Full Visibility: How Wherobots Uses Scarf to Guide GTM and DevRel
Wherobots is a Series A-stage startup building the Spatial Intelligence Cloud that makes it possible to build production-ready data products with data about the physical world up to 20X faster and at a fraction of the cost of existing approaches. Founded by the creators of Apache Sedona (used by more than 20,000 organizations), Wherobots brings the performance and governance of a modern lakehouse architecture to spatial data workloads through its optimized Sedna-compatible engine and SedonaDB, a spatial-first single-machine runtime. Teams move from complex, do-it-yourself pipelines to 5–20× faster processing without having to manage infrastructure.
How RisingWave is Driving Open Source Growth with Scarf
RisingWave, an open-source streaming database, is reshaping real-time data processing with its SQL-powered platform. With over 7,000 GitHub stars, the RisingWave open-source community continues to grow. However, as they increased adoption, they encountered a common challenge for open-source businesses: understanding and leveraging that adoption to drive enterprise revenue.
ARMO leverages Scarf to find high intent signals: Download + Pricing page = INTENT
ARMO offers a runtime-powered, open-source first, Cloud Security Platform and the creator of Kubescape. Kubescape is a leading open-source Kubernetes security project and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project, signaling its importance in the broader open-source ecosystem.
Prisma: Validating Enterprise Adoption Through Open Source Engagement
Prisma is a leading open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) that simplifies database interactions for developers, enabling them to write code in languages like TypeScript or JavaScript without having to also learn SQL. No more context shifting, Prisma acts as a translation layer between the developer’s code and the database, handling SQL queries and data management. Prisma’s community is massive with 375,000 active monthly developers and more than 8 million monthly downloads of the library on NPM.
CopilotKit Case Study: Leveraging Scarf to Uncover Hidden Open-Source Opportunities
CopilotKit is building the infrastructure for deeply integrated AI assistance, or co-pilots, into products for companies without the resources of Microsoft or Google. They began as an open-source project and have since added an enterprise cloud offering to complement their open-source solution.
How Garden Leverages Scarf to Understand and Grow Their User Base
Garden focuses on improving the developer experience and release velocity. They started as an open source project and later developed commercial enterprise offerings based on the OSS. We spoke to Eythor Magnusson, CTO of Garden, about their DevOps platform for managing and testing cloud-native applications.
OSS Privacy & OSS Analytics, How Heroic Labs Struck a Balance
Heroic Labs solves the toughest development, scaling and operational challenges for the world’s largest online games for mobile, console, PC, or cross-platform. Heroic is a YC success story having graduated, remained a leader in the industry, and grown without taking any further investment. Their OSS project has had around 9 million downloads to date.
Union.ai and Flyte: Privacy, Open Source, and Building a Commercial Business
Union is a powerful and flexible AI orchestration platform serving as the backbone of cutting-edge AI products. Founded by the co-creators of the hugely successful open-source project Flyte, Union.ai provides software users with the tools they need to move their ideas from concept to high-quality production. Union's aim is to organize the numerous processes required to train and grow the most sophisticated and dynamic machine learning and data products.
Smallstep Labs: Leveraging Open Source Data for Enterprise Growth
Smallstep ensures that sensitive apps and systems can only be accessed by company-owned devices. Smallstep partnered with Google and Apple to develop the new standard for high-assurance device identity - ACME Device Attestation. By binding access to hardware, Smallstep neutralizes security threats and streamlines compliance and governance. Smallstep’s platform integrates with existing device management and posture solutions and offers comprehensive protection for Wi-Fi, VPN, ZTNA, public SaaS apps, internal web apps, cloud APIs, and more.
Diagrid and Dapr: How to Balance Open Source and Business Through Data
Diagrid was founded in 2022 by the creators of the popular Dapr open source project with the mission to boost developer productivity, particularly those developers focused on cloud native and microservice architectures. Diagrid provides developers with productive tools and APIs, so they can concentrate on what matters: their business.
Unstructured: Understanding an Open Source Project’s Impact on Commercial Success
Customer: Unstructured
Scarf Case Study: Apache Superset
Haskell.org: Bridging the Gap Between Language Innovation and Community Understanding
Haskell, a cutting-edge programming language rooted in pure functionality, boasts static typing, type inference, and lazy evaluation. With innate support for concurrency and parallelism, comprehensive libraries, debugging tools, and a vibrant community, Haskell is a cornerstone for creating adaptable, sustainable, and top-tier software.
How Buoyant Drives Open-Source-Led Growth with Linkerd
William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, creators of Linkerd, the world's fastest, lightest service mesh.
Using OSS Usage Data to Sell your Company
Cesar Talledo is the Co-Founder & CEO of NestyBox. Nestybox was founded in 2019 with the goal of creating software to enhance Linux container security and workloads.
