Open business startups (I think), not open source
Open Startups List
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#12As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? This is annoying me in the youtube redesign as well. When you visit a channel you can't open the "videos" tab in a new tab because it's implemented as a javascript thing instead of a proper link.
A link can be both a suitable-for-tab link and a JavaScript thing. They simply didn't bother.
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#13As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
> Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? This is annoying me in the youtube redesign as well. When you visit a channel you can't open the "videos" tab in a new tab because it's implemented as a javascript thing instead of a proper link.
Yeah, this trend is pretty lame. For me, now it's often hard to just cut/paste a string to enter a search different tab.
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#14As it is, the website is a usability nightmare. Why should opening regular links be Javascript functions? There is no tab navigation, you can't use accessibility tools and you can't use any mouse interactions besides the hardcoded click event. It's a nice idea, but I'm really surprised that even a page as simple as this can suffer from over engineering.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the subheading of the site. > All these startups and side projects are building out in the open. Check them out! I think this definition is a little lose though. I went to try and see the Muzeek source code and the only thing I found was open source SDKs. I wouldn’t call that building in the open
Apparently it has nothing to do with open source, bur open business practices and metrics. A bit of a hijack of the word "open" but I'll be generous and say "naming is hard".
If I have to pay money to use something, it's not open. It's a total cooption
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#16Have you seen https://www.equityfront.com/? You can use it to easily share startup updates and monthly results with the world.
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#17I don't see an explanation anywhere, what is an "open startup"?
While some of us intuitively get it, a clearer word here might be “transparent”.
The business stats (income generated, views, etc) are available publicly, the business practices and choices might be available, the customer data is of course not available, and the service is not required to be free.
Think of these as very valuable learning tools for how to run your own business (and IMHO a pretty great marketing tool for them).
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#18Er, the first couple listed were created by the same guy. Did that same guy create open-startups.xyy and/or is OP?
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#20There is also Alephobjects creators the Lulzbot 3D printers. I'm not sure about the start-up thing but they are making open hardware and they are very open about their modus operandi and finance. Does this work?