Launch HN: DevFlight (YC W19) – Helping open-source maintainers make money
Hey HN, We’re Victor and Tony, founders of DevFlight ( https://devflight.com ). We help open-source maintainers make money. Think of us as agents for open-source maintainers. We met last year through the Indie Hackers community. It’s one of the luckiest things that’s ever happened to us. We clicked immediately. It became clear we share an obsession with building things to make developers’ lives easier. We began working on small developer-centric projects together. We started DevFlight after recognizing maintainers are the most underserved developers. They provide immense value and get little in return. We’ve spoken with many maintainers who’ve told us the current open-source development model is unsustainable for them. Their projects often end up being a second full-time job without pay. Some have to stop supporting their projects altogether due to a lack of resources. It’s tim
Why it failed
Hey HN, We’re Victor and Tony, founders of DevFlight ( https://devflight.com ). We help open-source maintainers make money. Think of us as agents for open-source maintainers. We met last year through the Indie Hackers community. It’s one of the luckiest things that’s ev
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- vbordo
- Ended
- 2019
- Source
- hackernews