Here's the one-hundred eighty-eighth issue of COSS Weekly, the global commercial open source (COSS) company category newsletter, brought to you every weekend by the team at OSS Capital, creators and stewards of COSS Community and Open Core Summit.
We deliver only the most fresh 😋 news from the previous week in COSS across: Funding, Content, Jobs, Liquidity and $COSS (Public Markets).
Last week saw $35M in funding announcements from Onehouse, updates from Plane and Hoppscotch, a software engineering opportunity with Cap.so, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding: $35M
📚 COSS Content
Plane: "Introducing Pro, our first features unlock for our Cloud users and an upgrade for self-hosted One and Community instances. plane.so/pro" Link
Hoppscotch: "The Code Generation feature for API requests can now be easily located on Hoppscotch . With v2024.6.0, we have given this feature greater visibility. You can now find "Generate Code" in the right sidebar, alongside collections, environments, and history . Choose the language or framework you want to generate the code snippet for, preview it, and click the "Copy" button to copy the code snippet to your clipboard. Make Better APIs with Hoppscotch" Link
Plane: "Linear: proprietary alternative to Plane" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "customer support is product" Link
Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD: "Out of the groups supporting Wiener's SB-1047: Open Philanthropy funded 10 "AI Existential Risk" organizations - a total of $53.6 million Jaan Tallinn funded 11 organizations - a total of $10.6 million for the 8 organizations with publicly available data. (That's without 2024)" Link
AppFlowy: "v0.6.3 is out. Create a website with AppFlowy! It is useful for sharing a variety of content such as blogs, handbooks, knowledge bases, and resumes. Please find our example of using it to publish AppFlowy's release notes: appflowy.com/97691283-0e3c-..." Link
Matt Goode: "in one week, my first ever game releases. i've spent about 7 months on this project, learning coding, art, and design from scratch. i would like to share a few things i learned about Godot, game design, and self-teaching in general" Link
JJ: "Awesome release and great work by the relentless and visionary founders of Plane @viharkurama + @vamsi_kurama. By far the best and most innovating open platform accelerating the future of work." Link
Dub: "The Dub API is now Generally Available: d.to/api-ga We're also introducing native SDKs in 4 languages: ◆ TypeScript (npm i dub) ◆ Python (pip install dub) ◆ Ruby (gem install dub) ◆ Go (go get ~dub-go) Excited to see what you build with this!" Link
JJ: "There goes Scam Altcoin..." Link
Juan Linietsky: "200k users on Reddit Godot +100k users across discord communities. +100k followers on Twitter Videos with millions of views in Youtube And to think I was in awe some years ago when the #GodotEngine irc channel on Freenode reached 100 users." Link
AV: "One day I want to get into Cal. Why? Bro your code base is such an amazing piece of art. You guys have test cases even for Timezones. I mean wow. The way you guys have integrated so many features,apps And you guys are constantly upgrading. So much a developer can learn" Link
Plane: "We ship products every two weeks. That's countless conversations, brainstorming sessions, customer interactions, PRs, and code. Discover how Plane helps us orchestrate it all, week after week. plane.so/blog/how-plane..." Link
Jason SaaStr.AI Sept 10-12 Lemkin: "Revenue growth across all of Coate's software portfolio (most of which is pretty late stage and high quality):" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
Tren Griffin: "TSMC posted second-quarter revenue of US$20.69 billion, up 40 percent from a year earlier, which is pretty good." Link
JJ: "Extreme Pareto distribution here." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
4,725 jobs and 316 companies hiring! Link
Richie - oss/acc: "Hiring a Software Engineer for @Cap. The goal is to build the world's greatest screen recording and sharing app. Fullstack TypeScript + Rust 100% Remote, work from anywhere 100% Open Source This is a part-time, contract role for now. DM me if interested" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 0.02% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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