Open-source is winning over developers and investors (Ep. 442)
Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.
Ben Popper
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Matt and Cassidy talk about the open-source startups winning investors and attention, why even small contributions to open-source projects are important, and how founders can encourage those contributions.
Episode notes:
Supabase, the open-source database-as-a-service company, raised $80 million in Series B funding in a round led by Felicis Ventures. In case you were wondering: YYes, the company is named for the Nicki Minaj song!.
Today in tech recs: Cassidy recommends budgeting app Lunch Money for everything from crypto to cash. Matt recommends Magnet for window management.
Today’s Lifeboat badge goes to user dfrib for their answer to Error “nil requires a contextual type” using Swift.
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3 Comments
I never have (and probably never will) understand the obsession with open source.
A competitor buys out your software supplier, and shuts it down. What do you do? (It has happened.)
A package does 90% of what you want, but the supplier has no interest in adding the extra 10% …
Bluntly put, Open Source is an insurance policy, most users can’t take advantage of “the four freedoms” that the Free Software crowd like to bang on about, but Open Source at least gives you some protection against your software supply chain going tits-up.
Matt might want to recommend Rectangle over Magnet. It’s free and open source!
https://rectangleapp.com