Here's the one-hundred ninety-ninth 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 OpenBB #1 Product of the Day, FormBricks #1 Trending Repo of the Day on GitHub, major releases from NocoDB, W4 Games, and RustDesk, and more news!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
OpenBB: "WE DID IT. We're officially the #1 Product of the Day But only because of you! Thank you so much for all the support, posts, comments, upvotes, DMs, etc. It truly meant the world to our team The OpenBB Terminal is SO back!" Link
JJ: "I credit 100% ALL (not some) of my success in life to contributing to different open source communities over the years. Contribute to open source !" Link
JJ: "@LiquidAI_'s LFM 40B is trending on @OpenRouterAI, next to Gemini 1.5 Flash, and Llama 3.1 70B. Go play with the models for free! openrouter.ai/models/liquid/..." Link
OpenBB: "Big announcement. "Accessible to everyone, everywhere" wasn't 100% true until today. Now, you can access OpenBB Terminal on the go and even install it on your devices if you prefer a native-like experience. Read all the details in our latest blog post by @josedonato__" Link
JJ: "Awesome progress by co-founders @jobenjada and @mfts0 on scaling @Formbricks, the leading open source challenger to @Qualtrics, sold last year to the strip-mining experts over at Silver Lake for $12.5 billion. github.com/formbricks/for..." Link
Hoppscotch: "We've rolled out a new AI-powered feature on Hoppscotch Cloud (hoppscotch.io). Now, with just a few clicks, you can generate intricate request bodies using minimal input. Select a text-based request body type, provide a concise prompt, and the feature will instantly generate the data you need. Try it out today to save time and effort ." Link
JJ: "Can't stop seeing closed core vs open core." Link
Cal.com: "honoured to be mentioned first in the @OSSCapital portfolio" Link
W4 Games: "One-Click Deployment for consoles! Introducing W4 Consoles, the latest product from W4 Games. Want to run your games on consoles, with a single click? Read the full article and discover how to take your games to the next level. tinyurl.com/W4consoles #GodotEngine #GODOT" Link
OpenBB: "We're blown away by your response, and we're experiencing a huge surge in demand across OpenBB Terminal services We're hard at work busy dealing with load, and appreciate you be patient with us as we scale up our systems" Link
Tim Sweeney: "Big news! The Epic Games Store and other app stores are coming to the Google Play Store in 2025 in the USA - without Google's scare screens and Google's 30% app tax - thanks to victory in Epic v Google. theverge.com/policy/2024/10..." Link
OpenBB: "The news is out OpenBB Terminal is back. But better. Meet the 1st AI Financial Terminal --- a flexible, professional web app accessible to everyone, everywhere. Enjoy our exclusive offer: Sign up by Nov 7th to get access to Global Market Data for free for a full year." Link
WordPress: "We're proud to announce that Mary Hubbard has resigned as the Head of @tiktok_us, Governance and Experience, and will be starting our next Executive Director on October 21st! Mary previously worked at @automattic from 2020 to 2023, and was the Chief Product Officer for @wordpressdotcom, so she has deep knowledge of WordPress and expertise across business, product, marketplaces, program management, and governance." Link
GREG ISENBERG: "job titles are having an identity crisis" Link
Alexander Rose: "For those following the saga at #Automattic and #WordPress, I stayed along with ~92% of the amazing staff. I believe @photomatt is fighting the good fight against private equity that guts companies, and does not contribute to the open source community." Link
W4 Games: "Need to port your games to different consoles with just one click? Meet Clay John, part of our team at W4 Games. We offer various pricing plans for all types of developers. Have any questions? Drop a comment! w4games.com/w4consoles #GodotEngine #godot #W4Consoles" Link
Quant Science: "BREAKING: OpenBB has JUST released a "FREE TIER". It's a free way to do Quant Research with AI. Let's dive in (Company Earnings Analysis Example):" Link
AppFlowy: "AppFlowy v0.7.1 is here! You can now view all your pages right from your browser! Simply visit appflowy.com. From the app, use the Share button to get your page's web link and view it in your browser." Link
W4 Games: "Building a multiplayer game feels like navigating a battlefield---balancing servers, gameplay, and preventing cheaters, all while managing monetization With W4 Cloud, we've got your back! Learn more: tinyurl.com/W4Cloud #W4Cloud #GodotEngine #Godot" Link
nocodb: "NocoDB's True Data Reflection is LIVE! Now, every NocoDB base is just a pure Postgres database! This feature will bring Enterprise Data Agility to the forefront, transforming the way your organization handles data. So, What is True Data Reflection? It's a breakthrough no-code architectural pattern where what you see in NocoDB's UI is now exactly what you see in your Postgres database, right from the start..." Link
W4 Games: "How can you prevent cheaters in your multiplayer games? Today, we introduce Fabio, part of the W4 Cloud team, who explains how we can help take your game to the next level. Got questions? Comment below! Learn more: w4games.com/w4cloud #GodotEngine #GODOT" Link
Jamie Pine: ""Spacedrive is out of this world" zdnet.com/home-and-offic..." Link
JJ: "The inference cost efficiency of @LiquidAI_'s models are absolutely unparalleled. As context windows expand, "infinite memory context windows" will be universally demanded .. and only the most compute efficient approaches will be able to actually satisfy these demands. OpenAI goes bankrupt in < 18 months even after raising $6B + because they have exhibited an inability to pierce through quadratically expensive inference costs." Link
JJ: "I spoke live at an MIT event today and condemned Scam Altcoin (aka Sam Altman) as a charlatan and duplicitous snake... and I was censored and interrupted as "this is not the view of MIT".... WOW. Good to know." Link
Melkey: "LIVE How to GROW a TECH Startup w/ @peer_rich , Co-founder of @calcom! We're talking YCombinator, scaling startups, open source software, & career advice you don't want to miss. Watch on Twitch & YouTube! twitch.tv/melkey" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "first-time churn below 8% hard work in fixing bugs & hard-core support pays off" Link
//Kalos: "The closest thing to serialized magic cards that are digital is @ParallelTCG cards. The game is an incredible test of your strategy, intelligence and skill! The next expansion set [Aftermath] is really going to shake things up! //" Link
rustdesk: "RustDesk web client V2 Preview is now available! rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/r..." Link
PyQuant News: "A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000 per year. Unaffordable for 99.9% of us. Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor. OpenBB just dropped the $0 cost replacement. Get 405 free data sources and an AI Copilot. The 90-second step-by-step guide:" Link
José Donato: "wip: allowing local models via WebLLM for OpenBB Copilot all data stays in your control without leaving the browser. small models are becoming powerful WebLLM project from @charlie_ruan is just mind blowing, took me a few minutes to integrate. even supports streaming" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Matt Mullenweg: "A bit about Automattic's special A12 stock program, and what we did for people who didn't take the buy-out offer: ma.tt/2024/10/owner-..." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,775 jobs and 324 companies hiring! Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 5.55% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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