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From https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/textualize-is-hir...

>At the end of last year I took a year off to work on my Open-source projects and develop an idea that I believe will allow the terminal to eat some of the browser’s lunch. Turns out this idea was compelling enough to attract some sweet sweet VC cash and I am now hiring a third Python developer to join the company.

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The question then becomes: What do the VCs think that the money will come from?

VCs are naturally risk takers, there is a lot of VC money out there seeking novel projects. Maybe if textual can land some companies like Dell/IBM/AMD/Oracle/AWS who want snappier textual frontends for sysadmins rather than slow/clunky web interfaces for sysadmins/app admins to do stuff like board management controllers and textual dashboards for app/status monitoring stuff. Lower bandwidth/more dependable than web interfaces over slow/spotty interconnections with something like mosh. Seems like an option. Projects like this that add color, etc add a 3rd dimension to a 2 dimensional text landscape and I think that counts for a lot.

Make me happy and point me at some of these because I have something and can find no-one to even look at it, and I believe it has actual cash value.

> Maybe if textual can land some companies like Dell/IBM/AMD/Oracle/AWS

And? What does “land” mean here, exactly? The project is FOSS, so they won’t sell the software the traditional way. So how will they make money?

Large companies tend to prefer support for any major dependencies, so, companies built around an open-source project typically sell support. Customers might also hire them for consulting, custom implementations using the project, etc.

However, it's not a high-value business so it is somewhat surprising VCs are funding this.

Maybe the VCs are quietly planning to force the company to make the source proprietary once they get enough adoption by such large companies?

Apparently some VCs are not expecting anything back except karma for making needed enhancements to civilization.

Textualize mention they want to make it so that you can deploy the same code base as a TUI and a web app. My guess this will be additional paid functionality that makes a seamless hosting experience.

> additional paid functionality

Then it probably won’t be fully FOSS, will it?

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