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Comment by EGreg

I built this and never sold out:

Web2 open source tools: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform (https://qbix.com/ecosystem)

Web3 open source tools: https://github.com/orgs/Intercoin/repositories (https://intercoin.org/applications)

Anyone is welcome to get involved or sponsor the projects. But frankly my experience with most VCs I have met has been that they try to avoid deep, decentralized open source platforms like this, so they can make quick wins on the latest fad. Mostly individuals here and there get it. But 95% of the time it turns out they have no money or liquidity, and I don’t have time chasing and finding out who does. That’s the nature of these things. It’s a lonely job.

Honestly, even though it’s completely free and open source, and gives people the tools to do what until now they could only do with Big Tech platforms, I expect many people on HN here will ding all of it — because that second project (Intercoin) is about blockchain-based applications.

So you can see the fate of open source free projects by how this post does.

parent EGreg 2 years ago

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