Ask HN: Anyone joined a company after contributing to their OSS projects?

• deno

  448 92,841 9.9 Rust

  A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

  

Back when I was monitoring deno's progress, I came across a mammoth PR by Aaron O Mullan that improved deno's perf significantly: https://github.com/denoland/deno/commit/3d2e05dc7b6735fe0b81...

I believe they joined deno shortly after.

So, I guess it does happen.

• levant

  3 822 6.3 Go

  An open source templating and deployment tool for HashiCorp Nomad jobs

  

Self explanatory.

I'm just curious whether companies are open for this. Lately there is more traction towards open-source and whether a person can start contributing to it and later join the core team.

one personal example i've read is the developer of nomad levant project was acquihired[1] by hashicorp

[0] - https://github.com/hashicorp/levant

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• SupaScript

  11 130 0.0 PLpgSQL

• jOOQ

  93 5,874 9.8 Java

  jOOQ is the best way to write SQL in Java

  

I made https://www.jooq.org. Then hired myself in the company I created to maintain jOOQ

• realtime

  54 6,451 9.0 Elixir

  Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets

  

I contributed to Supabase Realtime [0] before being hired late January of 2021.

[0] https://github.com/supabase/realtime/commits?after=9990120c6...

• supabase-py

  11 1,393 9.0 Python

  Python Client for Supabase. Query Postgres from Flask, Django, FastAPI. Python user authentication, security policies, edge functions, file storage, and realtime data streaming. Good first issue.

  

Contributed to the Supabase Python SDK[0] and postgrest-ex[1] before joining early Jan 2022

[0]https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-py

• postgrest-ex

  1 16 10.0 Elixir

  Elixir Client library for PostgREST

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• supabase-flutter

  6 608 9.1 Dart

  Flutter integration for Supabase. This package makes it simple for developers to build secure and scalable products.

  

I helped Supabase create and maintain their Flutter/Dart library before joining them mid April of 2022! https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-flutter

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