Because late stage open source capitalism is now bypassing the messy business of building something popular and going straight open-core/vercel-model on the back of already popular libraries and frameworks. The emerging playbook is:
- Find successful open source project
- Fork with "reasons"
- Pour VC into helpful features, great docs, DX and evangelism
- Run the Vercel playbook
- Find successful open source project - Fork with "reasons" - Pour VC into helpful features, great docs, DX and evangelism - Run the Vercel playbook
We're gonna see a lot more of this.