The Most Neglected and Overlooked Open Source Metric: Production Users
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Using OSS Usage Data to Sell your Company
Published
June 13, 2022
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Nestybox
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.
Challenge: Nestybox Desired Greater Insights into their Package Downloads
The Nestybox team needed a way to track downloads of their Docker Images from Dockerhub. They could track basic information with GitHub’s built-in traffic information. However, they wanted to see more information about the users and potential customers that were downloading their software. They worried typical solutions like adding telemetry to the software would scare potential adopters.
Solution: Scarf Delivered the Data Nestybox Needed
Nestybox began using Scarf to track more detailed data insights. Scarf helped by providing further insight into which companies were downloading and using their software. It provided more concrete data like company names and the number of times each company downloaded their packages. Scarf stored all historical data, which allowed them to gather better stats.
Result: Scarf Unlocked New Opportunities for Nestybox.
Scarf provided Nestybox with deeper insights into which companies were downloading their open-source software and opened new opportunities for the company during their recent acquisition.
Key Outcomes
- With Scarf, Nestybox could track downloads of Docker images without scaring potential adopters with typical telemetry software.
- Nestybox could see hundreds of downloads per week in GitHub, but could not tell who was downloading their software until they used Scarf Gateway.
- The data provided by Scarf was used to help Nestybox provide accurate download statistics during their acquisition conversations with Docker.
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