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		WhereIsTheTruth on Sept 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Going open-source as a VC-Backed company Who doesn't like free manpower to kickstart your VC backed startup? "We only have 2 employees btw, we are so good"

wmf on Sept 11, 2024 [–]

Realistically there is no free manpower. Small COSS projects initially get no contributions and once the project scales it's more work to manage the community and merge "contributions" than to ignore them.

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