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Open source release as the attention and developer mindshare play

April 3, 2026clem, Paul Copplestone - e/postgres

clem and Paul Copplestone argue that shipping open source is increasingly the way to earn attention and developer mindshare, with Supabase celebrating 100K GitHub stars as a visible proof point.

If it’s not either pushing the frontier meaningfully or open-source, no one will care these days (which is why most orgs should release open-source to get some attention and developer mindshare)
the @supabase repo just hit 100K stars on github
github stars are a vanity metric, but i love open source so it's something that matters to me
“If it’s not either pushing the frontier meaningfully or open-source, no one will care these days”
“most orgs should release open-source to get some attention and developer mindshare”
clem
Paul Copplestone - e/postgres
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