Sam Ragsdale

@samrags

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I hear there's extra credit for Videos on Farcaster rn

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Merit is available today.

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Merit is available today. @rfs and I started building projects together over 10 years ago—side projects built to amuse and grow our skills. We learned to code by reading millions of lines of code written by humanity's best engineers on GitHub. This is the marvel of Open Source. But there's never been an economic model that makes sense. The Terminal is our Open Source ecosystem explorer. It views Open Source as a social graph, much like Facebook or Twitter, but for code. The Terminal natively supports money—pay other developers, pay repos, pay anything. Merit powers our payment engine. It's a system that allows repositories to collect funds and pay their contributors, weighted by their impact. Merit handles all the administrative overhead, so you can focus on building and growing your tribe. Repo payments are limited to a few initial partners. Fill in your details and we'll reach out: https://www.merit.systems/partner Check out the Terminal today: https://terminal.merit.systems

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There is no second best

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Youngsters don't understand the OSS meta where they work for free and arbitrage for status. They get paid for content (Tiktok, Youtube, etc), get paid to build ecosystems via Hackathons, they get paid to boost brands on platforms like Whop. Merit makes this trivial for code, which is much more valuable

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Went to Denver for the OSS Summit with @mason. Three big takeaways: - OSS remains the best form of distribution for enduring dev tools. OSS is non-negotiable deep in the stack. - Everyone is excited about the open source infra enabling AI. The tech is so deep and specialized that the industry has converged around highly optimized public infra for serving, auto-scaling and training. Startups can build atop without worrying about building the vertical stack from scratch. - OSS is aging out and it's existential. Proportion of maintainers under 25 is down 50% over the past 5-years, the industry knows they need to engage the next generation. This is something we're laser-focused on at Merit, with contributor payments and project monetization. More on this coming very soon

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Because the airline sites are written in ASP.net which has so much latency that it destroys the browser agents

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shared DB with programmable auth

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correlation, causation

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RepoRoast dot Fun surfaces the humor on Github. Go check it out! https://www.reporoast.fun/

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imma slap a fat tariff on that recipe

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OS repos don’t have the ability to take a fee. They’d need to incorporate or register as a non-for-profit.

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Cline and Roo are fully Open Source Cursor competitors. Today they're doing over $7.5M MRR on the Claude models alone (via @openrouterai). Their take rate? 0. It's unprecedented in the history of computing for the infrastructure layer to accrue all the value.

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Soon OSS funding will have a real solution

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this is what @meritsystems is focusing on at the system/infra layer I believe cc @samrags https://www.merit.systems/manifesto

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