Commercial Open Source Is Hard: Our Journey (agenta.ai)

Author here. I wrote this blog post about our journey with COSS and the different models we experimented with.

If you're running (or have run) a commercial open-source company, we'd genuinely love to hear your experience.

The advice we got from other founders is to focus on adoption

It's really tricky to handle FOSS and BSL properly !

Can confirm, it’s way harder than it looks from the outside! Always open to hearing what worked (or didn’t) for others building in this space.