alt Hacker News> Open source but architecturally locked in.
You hit the nail on the head.
Cloudflare's new business model is to find popular OSS projects, create a vibe coded alternative that only runs on Cloudflare's infrastructure.
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QuantumGood • today at 7:56 PM
I think pretty much every corporation that can have had this thought, has had it. Really "any popular software" where they can provide similar functionality. And I think this is going to happen more often before it becomes less common.
Sadly, it looks more and more like it. It’s sad, because they were doing wonderful stuff.