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Slightly distracting question and because I am very curious. Why did you decide to opensource the project? What is the benefit that you get in your GTM by opensourcing your project. Don't you think it is a bit more of a headache to create and manage a community around the project. Document, manage external user changes etc.

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Great question. It has two components for OpenMeter: 1. My personal frustration when I had to do usage-metering at Stripe and wanting to have a standard for it, like how we have it for metrics. I also find it silly that every company trying to figure this out on their own. 2. We want to build usage collectors for common cloud components and third-party APIs and I think it's going to be easier to do it together as a community instead of working in silos.

But yes I agree, it's more challenging to build in open but I think it benefits the customer, the quality has to be there.

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