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by morgante 618 days ago
Awesome to see another open source player in the space, especially after Sourcegraph went closed source.

It looks like you're working on this full-time (and it's a lot of work to build great code search, as I know from working on my own product).

What are your plans for monetizing / building a sustainable business without inevitably going closed source like Sourcegraph?

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Currently, we don't have any plans of monetizing - the main focus for us right now is building something that people want to use :)
Do you plan on eventually attempting to monetize in some way, or is this open source as in free software as in you legitimately are just creating a new open source project?

I understand intentions can change, but there's a difference, and I'm curious to know the answer.

In lieu of money, how do you know you're building the right thing? For me, money is a good indicator you're building the right thing and solving the right problem.