Podcasts
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Building Scarf: Avi Press on Haskell, Telemetry, and Open Source Challenges
In this episode of the Haskell Interlude Podcast, Joachim Breitner and Andreas Löh sit down with Avi Press, the founder of Scarf, to discuss his journey with Haskell, the telemetry landscape in open source software, and the technical as well as operational challenges of building a startup with Haskell at its core. As a company dedicated to providing analytics for open source software, we use Haskell to build our product. The reason is simple. As Avi Press puts it, "Haskell is a fun language to work with. The community is great. [...] And the ecosystem is lovely."
Navigating the Complexities of Open Source Commercialization: Insights from Adam Jacob
In this latest episode of "Hacking Open Source Business," Avi Press and Matt Yonkovit sit down with Adam Jacob, the co-founder of Chef and current CEO of System Initiative. With a rich history in the open-source world and numerous thought-provoking opinions, Adam delves into the intricacies of open-source commercialization, offering valuable insights and alternative strategies to the commonly held Open Core model.
How to Use Metrics to Track and Evaluate Your Open Source Community’s Success
Open source software is more than just code. It’s also about the people who create, use, and contribute to it. One of the key factors to the rise of open source software is the power of community. Community is not only a source of users, but also a source of contributors, advocates, evangelists, and potential employees. Community is what gives open source software feedback, validation, trust, and loyalty. It is what makes open source software better and more relevant. But how do you build and maintain a strong and engaged community around your open source product or service? And how do you leverage the community to grow your business and achieve your goals?
Messaging and Positioning Considerations for Introducing an Open Source Product
If your open source product vanished overnight and all the code disappeared, how would people respond? The community’s reaction, whether it ranges from not being a big deal to complete, utter despair, will reveal the true worthiness of your product.
How to Get the Attention of an Open Source Software Investor
Open source is eating software faster than software is eating the world, but coming up with a brilliant idea that gains traction constitutes just one part of the process. Turning the project into a business that generates revenue in the long term can present one of the hardest obstacles.
Heroic Labs' Journey to Open Source and 5.3M Docker Downloads
Many companies start out with an open source product and later add proprietary offerings, but what if this path is taken in reverse? This is a question that Heroic Labs came face to face with. They began as a SaaS company but eventually recognized the benefits of pivoting to open source in their quest to deliver gametech tooling and infrastructure that empowers game studios and publishers to develop real-time, multiplayer, competitive, and social games.
How to Keep Open Source Projects Open Source
Open source is not a business model.
