Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!
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Feature / Product / Business: A Framework for Sustainable ATProto Projects | ATmosphereConf VODs
The ATProto community built a ton of great features and products over the past year! For our next trick, let's mature them into products and businesses. In this talk, you'll get a practical framework for understanding whether what you're building should be a feature, product, or business, plus concrete funding models at each layer to keep your work going and growing. (More in this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/mosh.bsky.social/post/3mckiat2ne22q)
I couldn’t discuss this during #AtmosphereConf, but I’m thrilled to announce today that @eurosky.social is acquiring @bsky.app. This acquisition is made possible by a 1.5 billion euro grant from the European Union as part of the New Frontier program. 🦋🇪🇺
I need people to stop trying to solve funding problems in the Atmosphere by trying to be attractive to the same funders and funding models that put us in this situation in the first place. Empowering individuals and communities via technology was step one. Step two is doing the same for funding.
Here's the updated "Funding Models Are Not Binary" slide from my Feature/Product/Business talk #ATmosphereConf. Turns out there are even more great examples already in the Atmosphere!
Introducing stratosfund.at! A new funding model to help open source projects in the #Atmosphere get PAID to bring your most requested features to life. 🤑💸💰 Let your favorite apps know what features you want most and how much you would pay if they build them. 📣 Join today! 1/2
StratosFund - Fund open source projects in the Atmosphere
stratosfund.atWe've got interactive sub-titles and transcripts for all of the @atmosphereconf.org talks thanks to Mark Boas @maboa.bsky.social contributions to the website. Here's the write up of his work using Hyperaudio
AtmosphereConf Interactive Transcripts using Hyperaudio by Mark Boas
blog.atmosphere.communityEarly 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
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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.
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-…
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
os4science.orgConference Takeaways I’m back from ATmosphereConf in Vancouver, and I'm processing what I saw and heard. The atproto developer community could not have been nicer and more welcoming. Here are some takeaways. ... toni.org/2026/04/03/conference-takeawa…
Conference Takeaways
toni.orgnovel funding mechanisms
funding models that doesn't depend on VC. funding models that keep things accessible and open but yet provide enough incentive for people to pay
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