As said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250414 the decision to open source it was based on what kind of people used it (more small organizations than we thought, fewer large organizations than we thought).

We don't do HNDD (Hacker News Driven Development) but I must admit that I was looking forward to the reception of Auto Deploy in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13239604