Here's the two-hundred second 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 the alpha release for Wayfinder, Appflowy and Rustdesk trending on GitHub, a major job opportunity with an OSS Capital company, JJ's upcoming trip to India, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "How many startups in America grind this hard with PASSION and no shame ...? How many?" Link
JJ: "Always delighted to start a new day with two of our portfolio companies trending in top 10 across the hundreds of millions of open source projects on GitHub. Congrats @rustdesk and @appflowy." Link
Matt Mullenweg: "Disrupt Interview is up: ma.tt/2024/11/disrup..." Link
Kevin Xu: ""In semiconductors, especially the most advanced semiconductors, globalization is dead. Global free trade is also dead." -- Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, said yesterday" Link
Steven Tey: "New Enterprise page on @dubdotco just dropped It's a showcase of Dub's enterprise-grade link infrastructure, with a focus on: ◆ Scalability ◆ Data security ◆ Open-source" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "our head of engineering posted this today engineering data from last week: - 91 merged PRs - 1hr to merge - 1 min to first review what a machine" Link
Automattic: "Catch our CEO, @photomatt, on the @TechCrunch Disrupt Stage this Wednesday, October 30th, for a 30-minute 1:1 fireside chat with TechCrunch's Editor-in-Chief, Connie Loizos!" Link
Tracel AI: "Burn v0.15.0 is out! It includes major performance improvements in matrix multiplication, convolution and other tensor ops to push the performance to cuBLAS levels on our Cuda and Wgpu (SPIR-V) backend." Link
JJ: "Big congrats to @templecrash and team @Parallel on shipping the alpha of @AIWayfinder today --- huge moment for crypto and the new era of AI being the primary interface for humans (in partnership with AI) interacting with and driving transactions on all blockchains." Link
nocodb: "Personalize your workspace like a pro with #NocoDB! Did you know? You can customize your base color, table icon, and view icon in just a few clicks. Make your data feel like yours --- easily organize, navigate, and enjoy a workspace that reflects your style! #nocode #Database #ProductivityHacks" Link
OpenBB: "We're excited to announce that we've integrated live price feeds from @PythNetwork, a leading blockchain oracle delivering real-time market data. Users can now access 456 feeds covering mainly Crypto, but also Equity, FX, and Commodities, with snapshots available for 400ms, 1-hour, 1-day, and 7-day intervals. Monitor price actions live on the OpenBB Terminal and get our Copilot to assist with your analysis. What datasets should we add next? Equity, Derivatives, Fixed income/Bonds, FX, Commodities, or Crypto? Rank your preferences below" Link
Steven Tey: "We just hit a major growth milestone at @dubdotco: 100M clicks tracked Next up: 1 billion clicks" Link
Elie Steinbock: "Open source is eating the world. Here are 13 open source projects I love : 1. @dubdotco - Dub - short links with superpowers 2. @calcom - Cal - the best calendar scheduler 3. @getpostiz - Postiz - manage every social media account in one place." Link
JJ: "Excited to visit India for the second time this year from late next week November 8-16th in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai. Focused on visiting @planepowers, @hoppscotch_io and Bittensor events. Also excited to say hi to @browserstack and @zerodhaonline founders." Link
Kevin Xu: "OSI (Open Source Institute), the keeper of the definition of "open source", laid out these requirements for an AI model to be considered truly open source: - Transparent details about training data so others can understand and recreate it - Source code of the model - Model weights from training Meta, and pretty much every other open AI model with any traction, fails these tests" Link
Josh Pigford: "just one @maybe PR merge away from rolling out support for automatically tracking 150,000 global stocks." Link
JJ: "@photomatt youtu.be/Fn_HzfI_sW0?si..." Link
Darren Ethier: "I'm so grateful to Automattic for the gift every employee gets after their 5th anniversary at the company. I didn't realize how much rest I needed. unfoldingneurons.com/2024/sabbatica..." Link
Yu Hu: "The fact that SN5 @openkaito miners on Bittensor are now outperforming OpenAI embeddings on an unincentivized, external, held-out benchmark represents a significant step toward practical usefulness. Watch the space." Link
WordPress: "Since Sept 17th, 2024, when the whole @wpengine thing started, there have been 28,738,111 downloads of WordPress Core (this includes all versions and all languages), 296,991,952 downloads of plugins, and 7,338,623 downloads of themes. But yes, tell us WordPress is in trouble." Link
Polar: "Introducing the fastest way to sell access to a file from your command line npx checkout-link ./my-file.zip Sell binaries, courses, zip-files - you name it Get a shareable Checkout-URL In under one minute Forget about VAT and Sales Tax - we take care of it" Link
Didier Lopes: "I love this so much. 1. I'm running the open source OpenBB platform as an API which gives me access to 370 different datasets. 2. The API is running locally, so I use ngrok to create a proxy for it. 3. I connect the proxy as backend for OpenBB Terminal. 4. I open up OpenBB PWA on mobile. 5. I use my voice to ask about Consumer Price Inflation. 5. The OpenBB Copilot agent finds a widget that has the data relevant to answer the question. 6. I check what source was used through our citation system and add it to the dashboard. This flow is so good, can't wait until the agent is capable of picking on a few datasets to extract insights on the go. What should I demo next?" Link
Vamsi Kurama: "Exciting milestone! While focused on building @planepowers, I missed sharing the news --- our GitHub repo crossed 30K stars! Thank you to our amazing community! More special releases and updates to follow github.com/makeplane/plane" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
- Chris Aniszczyk (@cra@macaw.social): "'IBM's Red Hat Acquisition Will Pay For Itself By Early Next Year' nextplatform.com/2024/10/24/ibm..." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 4,721 jobs and 327 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "Hiring a COO to grow one of our core portfolio from $1M to $20M+ in ARR over the next few years. You must have done this before in a startup capacity either as a co-founder / exec --- ideally in dev / infra. Millions of global users, lean team. DM me. Must be based in India!" Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets up 0.31% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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