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Open source companies somehow make money off enterprise contracts. People still don't want to be on-call if something breaks, or have to manage servers and backups. But making money off SLAs to implement new features will probably be a thing of the past.

by IshKebab9 hours ago|

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Indeed, but only a tiny handful of companies have been successful with that business model, and they mostly make margin on things you'd have to pay for anyway like cloud services. No company is going to pay e.g. $15/user/month for Jira when they can get the same thing for free - better even. And yes it isn't an exaggeration to say you could vibe code something better than Jira. (Especially because that's a low bar!).

I'm kind of surprised nobody has done that yet actually. I guess Opus 5.5 has only been out for a very short time...

by shafyy3 hours ago|

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> No company is going to pay e.g. $15/user/month for Jira when they can get the same thing for free - better even

It wouldn't be for free though, would it? People need to build and maintain it (and there's LLM cost associated with it too).

Let's say you are a 5 person start-up. It makes much more sense to pay $15/user/month for services like Jira, Slack, Email etc. then to build and maintain everything yourself.

For super large companies, it might make financial sense to build some of the tools in-house. But then again, that probably already made sense for LLMs were a thing. But there is more to it than just the pure financials (i.e. salary).

by IshKebab2 hours ago|

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You really don't need to be that large for it to make sense. A lot of these products are very rarely updated. Jira hasn't improved at all in the last 10 years as far as I can tell.

Maybe a 5 person company wouldn't do it. A 100 person one though? No brainer. And it only takes one to open source their solution.

by muhfuhkuh7 hours ago|

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The Red Hat or Canonical of vibe-coded/decomp/cloned software is just around the corner.

Slop curators and tech support shoulders to cry on. Could be lucrative.