Here's the two-hundred twelfth 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 exciting releases from Bittensor, AppFlowy in the browser, opportunities with Hoppscotch and Extropic, and new year news!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS Funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
JJ: "90 ~ days ago, Bittensor Subnet 51 (@celiumcompute) was registered ... Impressively, it is now crossing $4M in ARR in real external revenue. Additionally, 51 miners / valis / owner have been earning 270+ $TAO daily (nearly 4% of emission) .. which is $50M+ / year in $TAO .. > 10X the revenue being generated" Link
JJ: "dTAO docs docs.bittensor.com/dynamic-tao/ "Bloomberg Terminal" view of Bittensor subnet alpha tokens via the CLI:" Link
JJ: "Mining Bitcoin produces entropy. Mining Bittensor produces knowledge." Link
Namma Yatri: "We are extremely pumped up to share that the Hon'ble CM of Odisha @MohanMOdisha and the Govt. of Odisha has launched Odisha Yatri app last week. We are looking forward to building a future where Odisha Yatri empowers drivers, provides safe mobility, and enriches travel experiences. #Odisha #Mobility #ONDC" Link
AppFlowy: "The AppFlowy Web repo is now live on GitHub! Built with React, it brings AppFlowy to your browser, completing the experience across desktop, mobile, and web. Check it out: github.com/AppFlowy-IO/Ap..." Link
Hoppscotch: "Hoppscotch now has AI-powered features that have made API development and testing easier . Check out this video for a quick overview: youtu.be/E_uFvrv51Ig With these features, you can rename API requests with a single click, generate request payloads, and create pre-request logic and test scripts by simply providing a prompt describing the logic ." Link
codewithg.com: "This @dubdotco feature app.dub.co/wrapped" Link
OpenBB: "Using AI in finance doesn't have to mean losing control of your data or ignoring privacy and compliance concerns. But it also doesn't have to mean building your whole infrastructure from scratch. Did you know you can integrate ANY LLM into OpenBB and still leverage all the features of our workspace? ..." Link
Forward Email: "Forward Email now supports automatic vacation responders (e.g. out of office auto-replies) forwardemail.net/faq#how-do-i-s... (send to vacation@forwardemail.net to test!) Automatically uses your DKIM signature, dummy-proofed against SSL/TLS/MX issues, & supports WKD/PGP!" Link
Rayon Labs: "With Chutes, Deploy Your AI Models from Anywhere. Your Work Laptop? Done. Your Phone on the Subway? Also Done. Give it a go now for free: chutes.ai/app #bittensor #chutes #subnet64" Link
Zhou Xian: "We're excited to share some updates on Genesis since its release: 1. We made a detailed report on benchmarking Genesis's speed and its comparison with other simulators (github.com/zhouxian/genes...) 2. We've launched a Discord channel and a WeChat group to foster communications between users and contributors 3. We released Genesis 0.2.1 today with new features including faster cached kernel loading ..." Link
Sahil Lavingia: "Open source everything" Link
Steven Tey: "and DocuSign is still built by 7,000 employees if you haven't already, switch to @documenso -- don't underestimate the power of small teams and if you're looking for a finance/investment app, look no further -- Fey is the" Link
Matt Trifiro: "Check out my latest article: 96% and Rising: The Unstoppable Dominance of Open Source linkedin.com/pulse/96-risin..." Link
Konstantine Buhler: "2025: Forecasts in 5 Cost Trends Cost reduction drives adoption and innovation. That is a simple rule of economics, technology, and life. Ask Henry Ford in 1909 ("I will build a motor car for the great multitude... so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.") ..." Link
JJ: "Woah. If Bittensor Subnet 51 was valued as a startup, pretty sure it would be worth billions today ... however, today it is extremely undervalued earning $40M~ / year in $TAO emission (across miners / valis). This does not include revenue from renting out the compute: @celiumcompute" Link
Damon Chen: "Yesterday, I shared @steventey two pieces of feedback, and today, his team got them both done. This makes me love and trust dub.co even more" Link
PyQuant News: "A Bloomberg Terminal costs $30,000 per year. Unaffordable for 99.9% of us. But Bloomberg is not AI-enabled. OpenBB dropped the $0 replacement with AI agent workspaces. Free market data and an AI Copilot: The 90-second step-by-step guide:" Link
JJ: "Everyone should watch this, closely. x.com/i/status/18773..." Link
JJ: "dTAO testnet on Bittensor has landed today! Huge ship. Massive congrats to @const_reborn and the @opentensor team. Very transformative moment. $TAO --- Massive reduction in subnet registration friction (cost and more) --- Shift (gradually) from root network validation to pure stake weighted --- 21 million token cap (alpha) per subnet .. only convertible to TAO (but given new EVM support, we should expect manipulation / wrapping --- but see that as an antipattern) ..." Link
Adam Zieliński: "During my Christmas break, I've turned WordPress into a markdown editor, a git client, and a git server. I can: - Edit local files - Sync changes with to GitHub - Push and pull directly to WordPress See the demo: adamadam.blog/2025/01/08/wor..." Link
AppFlowy: "We kick off 2025 with exciting news! AppFlowy is now right in your browser. Simply sign up for a free account on appflowy.com to get started. With the addition of the web app, AppFlowy now delivers a complete platform experience across desktop, mobile, and web. What you can do with AppFlowy: Build and maintain a knowledge base for your team Create and publish documentation for your customers and audience Write, publish, and manage content with AI Manage tasks and projects for yourself and your team" Link
JJ: "Guess the (private) business: Founded in 2014. < 100 employees. $20B ~ in net profits since 2020. 97% market share. 350M~ users." Link
TechCrunch: "Open source licenses: Everything you need to know tcrn.ch/3DLYga8" Link
JJ: "Here's my current fav subnets on Bittensor: Templar --- 3 (training: distributed) Targon --- 4 (inference: hosting) Dataverse --- 13 (data: a scraping X / Reddit) Celium--- 51 (compute: hosting GPUs) Gradients --- 56 (training: on demand) Chutes --- 64 (compute: lambdas)" Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
No COSS Liquidity announcements this week.
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,193 jobs and 328 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "We're hiring a Backend Engineer (Cloud) for @Hoppscotch_io -- fastest growing and most widely used API platform in the world. Incredible chance to work closely with the superstar @LiyasThomas. wellfound.com/jobs/3186924-b..." Link
- Extropic: "We are now hiring a Hardware Systems Engineer! Any FPGA wizards looking to shape the future of AI compute should apply here x.com/i/jobs/1876702..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
$COSS markets down 2.60% last week
Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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