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Cal.com Open-Sources Time, Sells the Platform Layer
From a "calendly open source" Google dead-end to AGPL scheduling infra: how Peer Richelsen and Bailey Pumfleet's open-core playbook—not a naming scorecard—raised $32.4M and built Platform API v2 against Calendly's closed custody.
Dub Open-Sourced the Redirect, Then Sold Attribution
From a Vercel side project on edge middleware to an OSS Capital–backed link attribution platform: how Steven Tey's AGPL open-core playbook—not a naming scorecard—turned GitHub gravity into $2M seed and enterprise customers like Twilio, Framer, and Perplexity versus Bitly, Short.io, and Rebrandly.
Plausible Sells Subscriptions, Not Surveillance
From Uku Täht's GA integration disgust to Marko Saric's de-Googling playbook: how Plausible's bootstrapped, AGPL, EU-only subscription model—not a naming scorecard—reached 20,000+ paying sites against Google Analytics, Fathom, and Simple Analytics.