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4 sourced case studies tagged #open-source. Every number links inline to the page it came from; self-reported figures are labelled as such.

Consumer apps4 sources · 2 min

Omnivore: a loved open-source read-it-later app that shut down when its team joined ElevenLabs

Omnivore grew to a reported 500,000 users with a free, open-source reader. In October 2024 the team joined ElevenLabs and the hosted service closed within weeks. A lesson about free products and the cost of running them.

open-sourceread-it-latershutdown
AI tools5 sources · 2 min

Coqui: the most popular open-source voice AI, and still no product-market fit

Coqui spun out of Mozilla's speech team, released XTTS and other open models, and shut down in January 2024. Its founder's post-mortem explains why millions of downloads didn't turn into millions in revenue.

aiopen-sourcetext-to-speech
SaaS4 sources · 2 min

Postiz: an open-source social media scheduler with verified $350K+ MRR

After several failed startups, Nevo David pivoted a tiny open-source launch tool into Postiz, an AGPL social scheduler with a paid cloud. Stripe-verified revenue on TrustMRR shows how open source can be a distribution engine.

open-sourcesocial-mediascheduler
SaaS2 sources · 2 min

Plausible Analytics: $1M ARR with no ads, by picking a fight with Google

A two-person open-source analytics tool took 324 days to reach $400 MRR, then grew to $1M ARR through blog posts that hit the Hacker News front page.

open-sourcesaascontent-marketing

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