The Heavybit Library
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Navigating Markets in Open Source As Your Startup Matures
What to Consider About Market Forces in Open Source Why is Heavybit posting this extensive interview about how to navigate...
How to Successfully Fork an Open-Source Project
Why is Heavybit writing a startup guide to forking open-source projects? Because while open source has been an incredible boon to...
The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce
Why Data Pipelines and Inference Are AI Infrastructure’s Biggest Challenges While there’s still great excitement around AI and...
MLOps vs. Eng: Misaligned Incentives and Failure to Launch?
Failure to Launch: The Challenges of Getting ML Models into Prod Machine learning is a subset of AI–the practice of using...
How to Think About Positioning for Open Source
Positioning Open Source for Your Community (and Yourself) Why is Heavybit posting this extensive interview on thinking through...
The Power User’s Guide to Open-Source Licenses
Licensing: A Key Trade-Off for Open Source Startups Why is Heavybit putting together this guide for open-source startup founders...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: Community & Leadership
Welcome to the second article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
Technical & Cultural Learnings from 10 Years of Computing
What the Software Community Has Learned from 10 Years in Tech Amara’s Law states, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a...
Understanding Business Models & Defensibility in Open Source
First-Principles Business Models Matter for Open Source A key concern for open-source startup founders is defensibility–how to...
The Future of AI Code Generation
AI Code Generation Is Still in Early Innings AI code generation tools are still relatively new. The first tools like OpenAI...
How to Launch a Dev-First Startup: First Principles
Welcome to the first article in our definitive series on how to launch a developer-first startup, featuring advice from veteran...
How to Build a Successful Founder-Led Sales Strategy
How to Build a Successful Founder-Led Sales Strategy Hi, I’m Walter, and I coach startup founders to break through their...