Have there been startups that did milestone-based open source pledges? Such as:- Product will be open-source after achieving N active users - Product will be open-source after achieving N in revenueI think this could help startups in competitive/commoditized markets, who want to open-source but are too small to enforce their license on bad actors with complete ripoffs which I read about on HN...
Yeeeah but no. Companies (especially those ones) can have plenty of good reasons to need more control / custom code / integrations / etc. I think a lot of people don't realize how crippling and limiting committing to Webflow can be, and how much you end up hacking around it. Raises hand
https://www.plasmic.app gives you the same (actually, a FAR better) visual editor that plugs into whatever codebase you want. More people need to know about them.
Why might I use this instead of / in addition to Shadow (https://shadow.tech)? I'm a Shadow user, and they seem to give you beefier hardware at half the price, and it's a general purpose OS that will let you run any app (as opposed to "just" a browser).
I am a programmer who has only ever worked at tech companies. I have long searched for customer problems/product ideas to build a (software) startup around, but my own domain experience is just as a developer, and I want to help non-developers (I also believe it is harder to build dev tools startups, especially as cloud platforms grow).Besides reading threads like...