Awesome work. What is the business model for these astral tools? It’s a bit of a “waiting for the other shoe to drop” feeling after seeing the VC backing on the company page.
From what I’ve gathered (because I had similar concerns), the code is properly open source. In the very worst case, should there ever come a rug pull, it can be forked.
The code is definitely open source from a licensing perspective, but we are also trying to ensure that a healthy community forms around our tools as well. We've been developing ty in the open for the last year or so, and it already includes significant work from external contributors. This is definitely not a project where only Astral-paid engineers can contribute.
That's cool. So can you elaborate on how your long-term profitability is projected? Of course there would not be too much point in contributing to a project that gets aggressively monetized in the near future.
