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Re:Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I ... by throwaway9191a on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:20PM (#23467958)
I'd like to echo this, along with the "relax" sentiment from other comments.

I worked incredibly hard to open source a project at a faang. I was even given a customer obsession award for it. No promo.. and no promo level projects for the next year or so... and now this open source project is "too old" for promo consideration.

I've learned to relax and give just enough to not be marked LE. I now have a lot of time to dedicate to other pursuits.

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Re:Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I ... by nnoitra on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:58PM (#23469021)
LE?
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Re:Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I ... by 0xEFF on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:16PM (#23472035)
Low Energy I think.
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Re:Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I ... by foogazi on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:38AM (#23473965)
How was business impact measured when deciding to open source the project?
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Re:Ask HN: Moving from a startup to a big co, what should I ... by throwaway9191a on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:13AM (#23552390)
Probably too late to respond, but just in case.

We were measuring the number of similar support requests that came to the team. Our library would allow customers to resolve these problems on their own. We had a good estimate of reduced requests, but not a good estimate increased time to maintain the open source library.

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