Here's the one-hundred ninety-fifth 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 milestones for AppFlowy and NocoDB, news for Godot, a huge opportunity with WordPress on the Tumblr migration, conversations on AI, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "Happy to see TWO of our leading portfolio startups make the Top Trending page on @github today! Open source alternative to Airtable: @NocoDB Open source alternative to Notion @AppFlowy" Link
JJ: "Hobbies are Passions are Missions are Movements are Cults are Paradigms..." Link
JJ: "What if you could turn any short link into a full-blown attribution engine? Checkout @dubdotco 'Conversions' dub.co/help/article/d..." Link
OpenSauced: "Thrilled to drop the latest episode of The Secret Sauce! Join us for an inspiring chat with @steventey as he shares his journey from @vercel to founding @dubdotco, covering fundraising, product market fit, and staying resilient as a founder. Click to watch his full video!" Link
Bojan Tunguz: "We are so back. Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors --- veterans establish AheadComputing tomshardware.com/tech-industry/..." Link
Dub.co: "Introducing Dub Integrations: ◆ Integrate with @Zapier, @raycastapp, @SlackHQ, @make_hq etc. with 1-click ◆ Build your own integration using OAuth 2.0 (example app included) Read the announcement → d.to/integrations" Link
Steven Tey: "Excited to be launching Dub Integrations today! We also created a simple example app to show how you can easily build your own Dub Integration: oauth.dub.sh In just a few lines of code, you can add a "Sign in with Dub" button to your app" Link
JJ: "PSA: Scaling laws have absolutely Zero to do with any particular algorithm or architecture or anything of the sort... They have to do exclusively with the optimism that humans will figure shit out and continue to discover new paradigms of efficiency. Period." Link
JJ: "Phenomenal report by SVB. This slide is killer..." Link
JJ: "Apple AppStore is the most profitable tax business in history." Link
Steven Tey: "Excited to announce that @ProductHunt is now a @dubdotco customer: d.to/product-hunt From getting to #1 Product of the Month, to having Product Hunt switch to Dub...we've come full circle Shoutout to @iamjasonlevin, @kerzhner and @rajivayyangar for making this happen!" Link
Tracel AI: "Burn 0.14.0 is out! It's now the first fully Rust-native deep learning framework. Do everything in Rust, from GPU kernels to model definition. No CUDA, C++ or WGSL needed thanks to CubeCL that we released last month. github.com/tracel-ai/burn..." Link
JJ: "BIG congrats to our new @LiquidAI_ board advisor and the brilliant @MParakhin on joining @tobi (also early @LiquidAI_ investor) as CTO of @Shopify. Mikhail is what @RayDalio likes to call "Full Spectrum"." Link
Juan Linietsky: "Probably the most expected pull request to be merged for the next major version of #GodotEngine. By none other than the amazing @Repiteo." Link
Juan Linietsky: "Meanwhile, in the past three days, the magical goblins have been tirelessly weaving new wonders into the upcoming #GodotEngine 4.4." Link
Hoppscotch: "Self-hosting Hoppscotch gives you complete control over your API development workflow and allows you to deploy Hoppscotch in your own data center or cloud. We've created a simplified guide to help you set up Hoppscotch on your own servers in one go . docs.hoppscotch.io/guides/article... Make better APIs with Hoppscotch and manage it exactly the way you want ." Link
Richie - oss/acc: "We've listened to your feedback. The new version of @Cap is almost here. Local first. Privacy first. Lightweight. Open source." Link
JJ: "The only actual AI project here is Bittensor." Link
JJ: "NVIDIA pivoted from gaming to AI.. the problem, is that AI doesn't need GPUs in a world of decentralized incentive mechanisms rewarding the next form factors and representations of intelligence --- that will prove to be far beyond anything remotely resembling a GPU." Link
Fireship: "Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative: Notion -> Appflowy Zoom -> Jitsi Jira -> Plane Airtable -> NocoDB Vercel -> Coolify Heroku -> Dokku Firebase -> Pocketbase/Appwrite/Convex/Supabase Shopify -> Prestashop GitHub -> GitLab Slack -> Mattermost Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext Dropbox -> NextCloud Mailchimp -> Mautic Trello -> Wekan Docusign -> Docuseal Calendly -> Cal dot com Datadog -> Prometheus Google Analytics -> Matomo Microsoft Office 365 -> LibreOffice Asana -> OpenProject what else?" Link
Alex Bass (eff.vc): "If you know me, you know that I'm obsessed with @dubdotco What started as a modern link tracking tool has turned into our entire click/attribution infrastructure for our affiliate marketing business. Here's how we're leveraging Dub Analytics to make → d.to/efficient-app" Link
nocodb: "'When it rains, it pours!' And pour it did! 500+ new stars on @github for @nocodb today! We're lighting up the @typescript open-source scene! Keep the shower coming! Your support has been stellar! #nocodb #GitHubTrending #OpenSource #LowCode #NoCode" Link
Chris Aniszczyk (@cra@macaw.social): "'Elasticsearch is Open Source, Again' - in open source the right to fork by the community enabled some interesting competitive dynamics in this case but I'm happy to see ES open things up again... if end users don't want this to happen again they should demand ES consider placing some of the code in a foundation which will minimize the risk of rug pulling behavior in the future elastic.co/blog/elasticse..." Link
Plane: "One screen for it all! See all your ongoing cycles with their burndown charts and progress summaries on one screen. #PlanePro" Link
Tracel AI: "Kicking off our Building Blocks series with datasets & data loading! Discover how to seamlessly integrate your data into Burn using our Dataset and Batcher traits. Post: burn.dev/blog/building-..." Link
Steven Tey: "We just crossed a few amazing milestones at @dubdotco today: ◆ 50,000 users ◆ 500,000 links created We also crossed 50M events tracked recently -- currently at 62M and growing at breakneck pace" Link
JJ: "Ultimately, @OSSCapital may end up looking like a holding company (maybe DAO) of Bittensor sub-network miners and developers." Link
JJ: "In the realm where code meets the sky, Bittensor and Bitcoin, both do fly, But let's take a spin, a cosmic tour, Of Bittensor's lore, its power, its allure. Bitcoin, the granddaddy of crypto lore, A digital gold, that's for sure, But Bittensor, oh, it's a different beast, A marketplace for AI, a digital feast." Link
Juan Linietsky: "Many are surprised about why a language like GDScript (in Godot) has gotten so much traction and community, to the point its now in the 30 most loved programming languages (according to SO), despite early criticism of not being C# or a standard language.. (expand thread )" Link
JJ: "This will be unsettling to incumbent monopolists .. but I'm convinced that @juspay's open platform for payments will globally commoditize Stripe and Plaid ++ over the coming decade. I'm not an early investor (discovered too late), but the "Linux for payments" is here: github.com/juspay/hypersw..." Link
Juan Linietsky: "By the way, proper info about this will come in the next weeks, but the #GodotEngine console ports are nearing completion at @W4Games. This effort took almost 3 years and its being done by an extremely skilled team of six developers (expand thread ).." Link
Steven Tey: "We've been seeing a massive surge in usage at @dubdotco. In the last 30 days, we crossed 10M clicks -- an all-time high We're currently averaging 500K clicks/day -- can't wait to see how this grows in September." Link
Foyezes: "Godot 4 softbody physics, pretty smooth #godotengine" Link
Changelog: "When you're talking about the world of bits (not atoms), raising tons of venture capital is a scam. It should be a 95% smaller asset class... @JosephJacks_" Link
Juan Linietsky: "This is something that probably requires a bit more context. Many new folks are using Godot and ignore this, but the reality is that there was a very long process from 2019 from 2023 where we rewrote almost the whole engine from scratch to make Godot 4.0.. (expand thread ).." Link
JJ: "My best investment decisions so far over 6 years, 3 funds, and approaching 100 companies ...have all come from a single spontaneous, unstructured conversation with an individual I admire. Almost all by (me) cold-outreaching. No slides -- just raw, authentic dialogue." Link
Juan Linietsky: "I wanted for a while to write a thread about how Compute works so people can get a better understanding about GPUs.., but its not easy. Key concepts are the compute unit, threads, vgprs/sgprs, occupancy, latency hiding and superscalars. May need to split in a few threads?.." Link
Kevin Xu: "At an event in New York on Wednesday, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said Chinese chipmakers will be able to produce chips at the 7nm, 5nm and eventually 3nm technology levels using DUV tools -- better than limits set by Washington." Link
Rémi Verschelde: "At Gamescom, @reduzio and I had the opportunity to share a bit of our perspectives on recent changes in the game engine market. This was the elephant in the room so ended up being the main focus on that piece, which should be an interesting read!" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- JJ: "AI gravy train slows rapidly if NVIDIA misses estimates even remotely for any of the next several quarters. And if OpenAI doesn't reduce their inference losses by at least an order of magnitude and/or raise > $50B worth of compute and announces that in the next 60 days ~ and/or releases a model 10X + better than L405B." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,710 jobs and 321 companies hiring! Link
- Matt Mullenweg: "Looking for a few good folks to help with one of the largest migrations in history, 500M+ Tumblr blogs to WordPress: ma.tt/2024/08/people..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 4.92% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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