Hey all. I'm shutting down my startup (if it could be even called that - no money nor equity changed hands with anyone), and transitioning the code to be less restrictively licensed. I could have written more - about timelines, about the anxiety I've felt over the past month after I realized things weren't working, but I didn't. :)
Sorry to hear, Kyle! But keep in mind: good ideas always survive, you just need to find the right business model for them. Maybe Basis didn't work as a VC funded business from day one. But take Foxglove again: they came out of the open-source release of webviz from Cruise. That's how they "bootstrapped". Would love to see what would happen if you worked inside another company that wants to build their own middle-ware but also knows that they do not need to own it and would benefit from more users (because more "test coverage", more developers, more extensions). Then, after a couple of year, it might be ready enough where other companies can try it and get value very quickly (and much faster than they could now).
I'd definitely love to take the tech or ideas to another company. I'm happy for now to sit on it and make slow improvements for fun.