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Funding MIT Software with Commercial-Use Binaries

gschier — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://yaak.app/blog/funding-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817578

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New comment by gschier in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

gschier — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:54:59 +0000

Thanks, glad you like it!

New comment by gschier in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

gschier — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:05:42 +0000

Yaak [1] is a local-first desktop API client (Postman alternative) and I've been building MCP workflows around growth lately.

I already have one for product that takes in a bunch of sources (feedback, PRs, my own tasks, etc) and makes it trivial for an agent to guide me through the day's tasks. Now I'm doing the same thing for growth by taking in web/social triggers, web analytics, and other signals to spin up marketing tasks. We'll see how it goes!

[1] https://yaak.app

New comment by gschier in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

gschier — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:20:17 +0000

Linux users don't pay for anything anyway

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:40:04 +0000

That'll do it. That config is used for the production build of Yaak that's downloadable from the website. Just running "tauri build" or "npm run app-build" is what you want.

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:38:15 +0000

How are you running it? The code for the license management and badge are not included by default when running "npm start" or "npm run app-build".

And yes, you can indeed run the OSS yourself for commercial purposes.

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:23:49 +0000

Yep, that's what the fallback is for

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:22:18 +0000

Faster, smoother, GRPC, plugins, themes, fully open source, no telemetry,...

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:41:27 +0000

Yep, no VC! Though I have invested 2 years of my own living expenses into it, trying to make it work.

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:40:03 +0000

Ya, it's so funny to be going up against a 1000+ person company as a solo dev!

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:39:10 +0000

I currently direct these people to sponsor on GitHub

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:08:57 +0000

I've already sold once, and regretted it. I'm aiming to call Yaak "done" in the next few years and use it to fund my* retirement. See you there

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:46:59 +0000

No way. Queue the gif!

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:42:42 +0000

This is my retirement project. I'd like to call it "done" within 2 years

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:07:57 +0000

Hey! Who's this?

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:05:45 +0000

Non-competes expire

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:05:18 +0000

How so? It's completely open source and doesn't rely on cloud accounts or servers. It's also just me. Postman has 1000 employees and $200M+ in funding

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:02:21 +0000

My runway reaches infinity around $10k MRR so I'll likely do a post around then. Currently 11% of the way there!

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:05:08 +0000

It's a bit lower on the priority list, but it'll get there https://feedback.yaak.app/p/flatpak-and-flathub

New comment by gschier in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

gschier — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:04:01 +0000

Enjoy!