Founder of 1: chatGPT-like Slack bot "Q" @QBotGPT and 2: output visualization tool for engineers @workstatsdev. I'll share my struggles as a startup from 0 - 1.
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Kyoto University | Master's Degree | Electrical Engineering
There are quite a lot of investor backed oss companies: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Sentry, appwrite, supabase and many others. You can monetize OSS software by providing a hosted version of it (this is the approach we are taking). Other ways would be to provide paid support, open-core model, and etc... Hope this helps :)
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What kind of purpose do investors have for investing in open source? If you don't mind me asking, I'd like to know what your investors told you!
There are quite a lot of investor backed oss companies: MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Sentry, appwrite, supabase and many others. You can monetize OSS software by providing a hosted version of it (this is the approach we are taking). Other ways would be to provide paid support, open-core model, and etc... Hope this helps :)