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Doesn't seem to be a lot of options for self-hosted/open-core project management software. The existing ones looks pretty bad, and don't come anywhere close to Jira level functionality.
- Unity (San Francisco) - Jfrog (Sunnyvale) - Snowflake (San Mateo) - SumoLogic (Redwood City) - Asana (San Francisco)
Bebo founder is selling his house in SF for $39 million [1], that doesn't seem like a failure to me.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-couple-list-their-eclectic...
Anecdotes like this are just that, anecdotes, there are no numbers in this article to show a trend away from Mongo, Mongo is actually continuing to gain adoption. See https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
To me, it was the only computer I've owned that had personality, which I can't completely describe what that means, but no other computer has felt like my Amiga.
Let's take mesh networks for example (as mentioned in the article). Substratum pays users in coins to share their network, which creates an incentive to grow the network (as long as the coins are worth something). If the coins are worthless, the model doesn't work.
It would take a lot of money to create the incentives without the coins.
What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn't prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?
To put it another way, RethinkDB did extremely well on Hacker News. Twitter didn't, if you remember all the negative posts (and still went public). There is little relation between success on Hacker News and company success.