Here's the two-hundred twenty-third 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 Maybe and RustDesk among hottest open-source startups of 2024, job opportunities across the board at Hoppscotch, Gumroad's open-sourcing of Flexile, Cal.com's partnership with Coinbase, a new website for OSS Capital from WordPress, and more!
Enjoy!
💰 COSS Funding
No COSS funding announcements this week.
📚 COSS Content
Richie - oss/acc: "over the next few weeks, @Cap is getting lots of new upgrades. We're focusing exclusively on performance/UX improvements & bug fixes. first up is a brand new editor" Link
Simon Willison: "Notes on today's DeepSeek v3 0324 model - a 641 GB MIT licensed monster, but you can run it on a ~$10,000 consumer level 512GB M3 Mac Studio if you use the 352 GB quantized version via MLX simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/de..." Link
JJ: "Be in control. Be free. Switch from Calendly to @calcom. Switch from Jira to @planepowers. Switch from Bloomberg to @openbb_finance. Switch from Airtable to @nocodb. Switch from Unity to @godotengine. Switch from Postman to @hoppscotch_io. Switch from Klaviyo to @dubdotco." Link
JJ: "Phenomenal work happening @tplr_ai --- worlds first (and still only) decentralized AI training network .. incentivized, permissionless, open. 200+ runs, dozens of miners around the world, scaling model sizes. All enabled by Bittensor. youtu.be/3jNpaHvJuyE" Link
OpenBB: "New version alert! OpenBB v1.2.1 is here Check out what's new Data visualization and UI/UX updates: Simplifying your interactions with AI agents, you can now use @widgets to quickly query specific data widgets without adding them to your dashboard. Our AI agent can now generate angle and pie charts, saving you time in custom visualizations. You can now minimize or maximize widgets effortlessly with new widget controls, giving you more flexibility in managing your workspace. But there's more!" Link
Didier Lopes: "Someone from our team built a Canadian ETF dashboard with data from TMX Can't wait for the next open source platform release that will bring dozens of different templates as examples of what can be done on OpenBB" Link
TechCruch: "The 20 hottest open source startups of 2024" Link
JJ: "Many of these aren't startups. And @github stars are not the right metric to focus on in terms of measuring "hotness" .. but it's fun! Congrats @maybe and @rustdesk in the @OSSCapital portfolio." Link
Gábor: "Running a scheduling system for a team of 40 people is surprisingly expensive. My client was paying $7,680 per year to Calendly for this service. I've now migrated them to @calcom, saving them $3,072 per year." Link
Sahil Lavingia: "Flexile goes open-source on Friday! Payroll & equity for everyone." Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "reminder to not blindly follow startup playbooks when 99% of startups fail" Link
Cal.com: "This is the first out of THREE big announcements with @coinbase stay tuned ..!" Link
Steven Tey: "Beyond excited to share that @framer's Creator Program is now powered by @dubdotco As a creator, you can now: ◆ Create framer.link short links for your templates ◆ See real-time conversion analytics ◆ Receive payouts directly to your bank account See how it works" Link
Gumroad: "10 days until Gumroad is open-source..." Link
Logan Gott: "making the switch from Calendly to @calcom loving it so far" Link
OpenBB: "Whether you manage multiple funds, communicate in different languages, or simply want to give your analysts more time for high-value work, we're excited to help you transform your investment communications process. Read the full blog post: openbb.link/HhOMfZa" Link
Xavier: "new features live on tao.app : - historical validator APY - historical alpha market cap + FDV" Link
Peer Richelsen --- oss/acc: "amazing to see another large @calcom customer see success in the market techcrunch.com/2025/03/26/fin..." Link
Steven Tey: "Good news: We've just added deep links support to @dubdotco. This has been a highly requested feature since the early days of Dub, so I'm glad to see this finally ship. Next up: Deep links conversion tracking" Link
JJ: "So proud of @latentholdings execution in building TAO.app over the last several weeks from zero ... we are shipping new features and improvements on a weekly basis to deliver the best Bittensor analytics and network explorer. More metric, more automations, more insights. $TAO" Link
Sahil Lavingia: "Flexile is now open-source: github.com/antiwork/flexi... To my knowledge, the first cap table management tool that is." Link
WP Gallery --- The Best WordPress Websites: "Our #WordPress website pick of the day built with #Gutenberg is @OSSCapital. A visually striking site for the only early-stage VC exclusively backing commercial open-source startups founders." Link
Didier Lopes: "The fact that one of our engineers was able to build this in a couple of days for a workshop for Risk Managers and Investment Advisors that we are having next month is truly mind blowing to me." Link
GitHub Projects Community: "Open-source link management and tracking platform." Link
💸 COSS Liquidity (M&A + IPOs)
JJ: "First major IPO this year ... AI compute revenue round-tripping as a service. Let's see how the markets like it." Link
zerohedge: "This IPO is a total disaster: NVDA forced to step in and "anchor" the IPO with a $250MM order at $40 per CNBC Without NVDA, which already owns 5% of CRWV, IPO would bust" Link
Nithin Kamath: "We started Zerodha in 2010, and in the first decade or so, I kept wondering, "When would the Indian capital markets expand?" and what would the trigger be? My question was answered in 2020, and the trigger was a global pandemic. In the 5 years since 2020, the Indian markets have grown more than the preceding decade and a half. This growth was across the board, no matter what metric you look at, from unique investors, turnover, new SIPs, IPOs, to liquidity. In my 14 years of being a stockbroker, I can confidently say that the Indian stock market has never been more mainstream than it is today ..." Link
🛠️ COSS Jobs
- 5,638 jobs and 331 companies hiring! Link
- JJ: "We are hiring across the board at @Hoppscotch_io, one of top fastest growing open source startups globally with millions of users and hundreds of enterprise customers. Operations, DevOps, Docs, PM / Growth, Marketing, Sales, Front / Back end. DM me / @LiyasThomas and/or apply below. APPLY: wellfound.com/company/hoppsc..." Link
📊 $COSS - Public Markets
- $COSS markets down 3.09% last week
- Latest $COSS markets as of last Friday at market close, courtesy of Koyfin
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