[spark3k]

If the business model for this was: 1) fully open source 2) ~$2.99 per user per month 3) more for team features 4) paid plugins and themes 5) opt-in and inspectable telemetry

They’d probably get their million paying users in the first year.

For this crucial part of this target market’s (engineers) toolkit, it HAS to A) be open source and B) have the option for zero telemetry.

Inb4: “if it was open source why would people pay for it?!?” Because at the right price people are happy to pay and support something they love and get low-effort trustworthy updates built in.

[zhengt]

Thanks for writing your thoughts! I can understand the skepticism and ultimately this is not far from the business we want to build.

The terminal is totally free for individuals and our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features.

We are also definitely open-sourcing parts and potentially all of the code.

You can read more about how we see it here: https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/discussions/400.