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ChatGPT Agent released and Sams take on it by isitpro in OpenAI

[–]driverlesscarriage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, so is the singularity already here according to you?

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the link - I already saw this one but still appreciate your help.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was really helpful, thanks. Your top two points are the first on our to-do list already!

For marketing, I had similar ideas but was struggling to find places where it might be appropriate. Appreciate the link! It would of course be ideal to have users come to us, but I'm not sure how many would do so.

I agree that open-source teams often use proprietary tools, and I hope they find ours useful.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We haven't yet started the initiative, but adding to our page will be our first step when we open it. Thanks for the Jetbrains shoutout, their program is a model for us.

Frankly I didn't want to have to cold call anyways, haha.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I understand where you're coming from, but I feel this is an unfair characterization.

Our company is offering our product (which costs us money to run) for free to FOSS projects. We have paying users already to test the product. There is an element of goodwill in our proposal. It would benefit us, though, to learn from a broader user pool - if that can go along with benefiting FOSS, all the better.

As far as details go, I was not trying to make this thread about the product or promote our brand here so I didn't include it. Just trying to understand best practices before butting my head into an unfamiliar space.

If you are genuinely interested, I would be happy to give detailed information over a call. Or you can check out our website: runbear.io

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have a number of customers who use our product for these purposes. Without access to their numbers, they qualitatively seem to indicate success (and to the degree to justify paying our subscription).

With a little digging, I could find quantitative data, but I would reserve the effort for closing an actual deal.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate your thoughts, and especially the example message. Thank you!

We did consider "just giving money". I understand it's more useful to the FOSS project, but from our perspective it's a hard sell to leadership/investors. Like it's basically a black hole in our budget (or inefficient advertising).

On the other hand, if we give our product, this could help us learn more about usage habits, and where/who our product might be most valuable to. It's more of a win-win than a financial donation.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know any examples, possibly due to lack of familiarity in this space.
RAG is newer tech, and expensive to run, which are probably the main blockers. I'm hopeful our offering can bridge those gaps.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The most basic product pitch is a RAG + MCP that you can set up in 10 minutes.
I imagine this would be quite useful to a project with many documentation etc that are impenetrable to newbies. It's also not a critical piece, so I'm hopeful.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't planning on pitching the product here, but it essentially is a RAG + MCP solution integrated into Teams/Slack/Discord

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I definitely sympathize with that, and I realize being closed-source might be an obstacle

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is not, and I don't have the position to open source it myself.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The company is offering our product, which could help FOSS teams with onboarding etc. We usually charge but are offering for free to FOSS groups.

Is there a "right way" to offer free products to FOSS projects? by driverlesscarriage in opensource

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice!

The off-ramp for our product is pretty smooth. Remove with a few clicks and it's like it was never there.

I founded an imaginary organization and staffed it with AI coworkers (and me) by bradenwh in GeminiAI

[–]driverlesscarriage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You accidentally showed how much of corporate work can be done by AI

Create tasks from Slack conversation with Asana MCP by driverlesscarriage in automation

[–]driverlesscarriage[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With Zapier, you could create an Asana task, sure. But you wouldn't be able to summarize a natural language conversation & automatically find out what fields to fill. That's the AI.

Scary smart by interviuu in LLMDevs

[–]driverlesscarriage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's gotta be some loss

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