Hey all. I'm shutting down my startup (if it could be even called that - no money nor equity changed hands with anyone), and transitioning the code to be less restrictively licensed. I could have written more - about timelines, about the anxiety I've felt over the past month after I realized things weren't working, but I didn't. :)
Sorry to hear, Kyle! But keep in mind: good ideas always survive, you just need to find the right business model for them. Maybe Basis didn't work as a VC funded business from day one. But take Foxglove again: they came out of the open-source release of webviz from Cruise. That's how they "bootstrapped". Would love to see what would happen if you worked inside another company that wants to build their own middle-ware but also knows that they do not need to own it and would benefit from more users (because more "test coverage", more developers, more extensions). Then, after a couple of year, it might be ready enough where other companies can try it and get value very quickly (and much faster than they could now).
