(*blog post author here)
Thanks for sharing this on HN! I'll keep an eye on the comments and try to answer questions that come up.
Thanks for sharing this on HN! I'll keep an eye on the comments and try to answer questions that come up.
Do you thing the tech landscape today would have allowed for nebula to be born? Lots of companies now have strict IP agreements they have team members sign.
The most important concern (IMO), was considering whether we could commit to properly maintaining a project. Before open sourcing anything, you need to discuss how you'll go about managing an issue and pull request backlog, so that people don't come across "dead" projects under your stewardship.
In a high growth startup, I do think something like this could happen again, but as a company grows, there are certainly more layers that can make it difficult to share things openly.
I don’t really think it’s the size or layers of a company that prevent; it’s the culture. This culture of creation permeates everything I’ve seen Stewart Butterfield do. At least from the outside. Admirable and extremely profitable.