i see an outside success like your company that's making millions of dollars it's always like a bunch of different forces pushing in the same direction. i don't think we will have been very hard today if we weren't proprietary no chance yeah and then not made it open source because it would have been much harder for the customers to basically verify what you say is true there'd been less trust there. We got several inquiries from companies like ooh we love what you do we love that it's permissive license or we want to sell it to our audience but please can you build foot in the door with us? I use WordPress because of the product and the what website i can build
Marko Saric (@markosaric) talks living in Brussels, things he learned working in marketing, joining an existing project as a late co-founder, succeeding on Hacker News, surviving against a behemoth competitor, and learnings from bootstrapping an open-source project to over $1.2M in annual revenue with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).