SparkToro Raised a Very Unusual Round of Funding & We're Open-Sourcing Our Docs - SparkToro
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many
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Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an ideaโฆ</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...
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A letter to tech CEOs
Good news we are adding @semble.so support to @infoenon.com! I've been lacking with connections and community outreach lately but that ends today. We will also be adding at least 3 others in the coming months to be natively surfaced and shown on our platform!
For anyone building new apps and tools on ATproto that are โฆ ๐ on the Open Web ๐ฑ past the prototype stage โจ reimagining the social internet New_ Public, @publicspaces.net and @waag.org are investing up to โฌ10,000 in alternatives to Big Tech Learn more, share, or apply by May 1st newpublic.org/OSA
Open Social Awards | New_ Public
newpublic.orgBig news! Igalia (@igalia.com) is partnering with @eurosky.social to develop the next generation of the open social web. Let's stop waiting for others to fix our problems and start fixing them ourselves. We can just do things. More: eurosky.tech/s/Eurosky-Igalia-partnership-โฆ
Sherif EA
I am very excited to announce our partnership @eurosky.social with @igalia.com! The partnership will accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the open social web, enabling developers, organizations, & communities to build new applications. cc @xanlopez.xyz
We're applying for grant funding to support further panproto development (including hiring a developer and a postdoc) and are looking for users who would be willing to write a letter of support. If that sounds like you, please get in touch with @aaronstevenwhite.io!
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Launch Announcements @ AtmosphereConf
news.atmosphereconf.orgzulip.org is really good open source messaging platform software. Zulip gave @ecosystemaction.com a sponsored plan, because we are a research team. Zulip also provides sponsored plans to open source organizations. ๐
Zulip โ organized team chat
zulip.orgEarly on in my time here I was sketching out a Bandcamp alternative hosted on the ATmosphere. The necessary affordances weren't there to make the market work (private data), but there was also not a way to get funding to build it because there is no moat or ROI. The data model is open, competition
Ted Hanโ ้่ๅฎ
I've been talking about this for months with others. SaaS products built around data moats are not a thing in the Atmosphere. The whole point is that users data should not be enclosed. This is a space that requires other types of business models.
