| Very interesting, tempted to apply to the company as this sounds very promising and fun to work on... I'm curious about the business side of things, to give some context, some open source models that startups use today are: 1. The "open core" model, Gitlab being a good example. They try to split features that are open or closed/enterprise depending on the buyer. 2. The AGPL model, Mongodb used to do this, today a popular example is Grafana and their collection of products. 3. The Apache + cloud backend model, the core being standalone working with Apache license while building a value added managed service. I think this is what Synadia is doing with NATS. 4. The "source available" model, not really open source, but worth mentioning as it's very popular recently. Examples Mongodb, Elastic, Cochroachdb and TimescaleDB. This is often combined with open source such that some parts are open source, others source available. With this as a reference Nikita, how would you explain how Neon thinks in regards to licensing and eventually building a healthy business? It's obvious a managed database service is the money maker, but how do you think around compeditors taking the project and building managed services without or with minimal code contributions? I'm sure you guys have thought a lot about this, would be interesting to hear some thoughts and reasoning for or against different options. (Note: This is not meant to be an extensive explanation of these business models just a high level overview. If I have miscategorized some company above feel free to correct me in a comment.) |
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