haxplorer
Joined 17 years ago
Joined 17 years ago
Good to see a two sided solution for this. Keen to try out soon
The early contributors to an Open source project often go unrewarded when it becomes a commercial hit.
Cases in point - Mongo, Hadoop (Hortonworks), Memsql, etc. started out with a good amount of community support, and later went on to becoming commercial successes. While they recognized a lot of the contributors through various programs, and sometimes hired them in, the others who didn't join their journey full time might not have benefited.
Many other companies start with a "Develop in the open" philosophy now, despite being VC backed from early stages - cases in point Meteor, Gitlab, Appsmith, etc. The community engagement is slightly on the lower side once the project is well staffed. The motivation seems to go down.
What if the contributors could have a pie of the company? A very small pie that is proportional to the importance of the feature or bug fix at that point in time. But, as the company grows, the value of the pie grows. Just like an ESOP, or any token. Could say a project set aside 20% of their enterprise value as tokens, and use them as rewards to drive their roadmap with the community? Higher the importance, higher the bounty. That could change the dynamics around OSS contributions, which are currently driven more by the interest of the contributor more than the importance of a feature or a fix to the project.
I see Aviyel could also potentially drive such a shift.
Saw them on Producthunt today - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/aviyel
The comment referred to at the top of this post - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/aviyel?comment=1785981
TL;DR: We're building the first-of-its-kind Live Video Agent that can handle sales and onboarding calls. Imagine a sales rep or onboarding specialist on Zoom—our agent can do it all.
What makes our agent unique is its ability to log into software and perform human-like demos, showcasing how the software works. Our agent is trained on the UI to present every use case based on the customer's needs.
We train our agent using videos of sales and onboarding calls, giving us two major advantages: any previously asked question can be answered by the agent, and onboarding is seamless and less time-consuming compared to human sales reps.
We launched on Product Hunt a couple of weeks ago, and our SDR agent made 143 calls, securing 8 meetings, which converted into 3 customers. This is our proof of concept—if an unknown brand can acquire customers with an AI agent, imagine what an established brand can achieve.
We're just starting and would love to get feedback from anyone interested.
Founders calendar - https://cal.com/fluid/30min