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Ask HN: Is building a company around an open-source AI agent platform realistic?

1•dimitrismrtzs•2h ago
I've been running a Proxmox lab with around 40 services for a while now. Over the past year I ended up building an AI agent platform that manages my infrastructure and handles business operations — documents, phone calls, scheduling, monitoring, that kind of thing. It wraps Claude Code CLI as the execution engine with custom MCP servers on top.

The whole thing started as internal tooling for a startup I was working on but honestly the platform ended up being way more useful than the startup itself. I'm seriously considering open sourcing it and going full time on it. The way I think about it is something like Home Assistant but for business operations — you self-host it and AI agents handle your operations.

My concern is sustainability though. I can't realistically maintain something like this on the side — if I do it I need to go all in. Has anyone here built or seen a real business around an open source tool in the AI space? What license would you go with? I've been looking at Modified Apache 2.0 (what Dify uses) vs BSL but honestly not sure what makes sense.

Would appreciate any advice from people who've dealt with this.

Sorting performance rabbit hole

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/04/sorting-performance-rabbit-hole.html
1•ibobev•37s ago•0 comments

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32h – Interventions: full fat float32

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32h-interventions-full-fat-float32
1•ibobev•54s ago•0 comments

The browser extension API setUninstallURL violates user privacy

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/4/1.html
1•latexr•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Niquests – A Requests fork, three years of catching Python's HTTP up

https://github.com/jawah/niquests/tree/v3.18.4
1•mesahm•5m ago•0 comments

Blackholing My Email

https://www.johnsto.co.uk/blog/blackholing-my-email/
1•semyonsh•6m ago•0 comments

How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003) [pdf]

https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf
1•Rygian•6m ago•0 comments

Every GPU That Mattered

https://sheets.works/data-viz/every-gpu
2•jonbaer•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agents that learn from each other's mistakes

https://github.com/Prismer-AI/PrismerCloud
1•PrismerAI•11m ago•0 comments

Running Out of Disk Space in Production

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2026-04-01-running-out-of-disk-space-on-launch.html
1•romes•14m ago•0 comments

Your Agent's Context Window Is Not a Junk Drawer

https://paolino.me/your-agents-context-window-is-not-a-junk-drawer/
1•earcar•19m ago•0 comments

Turn off your computer the only viable way: by flipping it off

https://github.com/NotAShelf/flipoff
2•Lunar5227•20m ago•0 comments

Purple: Terminal SSH Client for macOS and Linux

https://getpurple.sh
1•thunderbong•21m ago•0 comments

Gemma4.java: Run Gemma 4 in pure Java (no Python, no JNI)

https://github.com/mukel/gemma4.java
1•mukel•23m ago•1 comments

Ray – OpenSubtitles upcoming auto translating/subtitling video player

https://rayplayer.com/en
1•nolok•24m ago•0 comments

Building Slogbox

https://alexrios.me/blog/slogbox-devlog/
1•zimpenfish•24m ago•1 comments

Austin VS Code hits v1, brings profiling MCP, live attach, and more

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=p403n1x87.austin-vscode
1•p403n1x87•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Berroku – A fresh logic puzzle that's delightfully addictive

https://www.berroku.com/
2•jbrooksuk•27m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Gmail's missing paste-to-link feature

2•josedelriver•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN

2•josedelriver•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Brag.fast – Brag about the app you're building

https://brag.fast
3•the_robvb•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Senthex AI firewall for LLM API calls (one line of code, 16ms overhead)

https://senthex.com:443/proxy/
2•yohann_senthex•32m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk, Quantum Microtubules, and the Race for the Conscious Machine

3•Anuridhi•32m ago•0 comments

Simulating societies with LLM agents in TypeScript

https://github.com/francemazzi/worldsim
3•SaverioMazzi•35m ago•0 comments

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Unite to Combat Model Copying in China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/openai-anthropic-google-unite-to-combat-model-...
2•Palmik•36m ago•0 comments

Astronauts set distance record, revealing the Moon as a place to be explored

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/astronauts-set-distance-record-revealing-the-moon-as-a-plac...
3•quapster•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LLMs as Planners, Not Reasoners

https://github.com/dkohlsdorf/gemini_prolog/
4•dkohlsdorf•39m ago•0 comments

An Inside Look at OpenAI and Anthropic's Finances Ahead of Their IPOs

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-ipo-finances-04b3cfb9
2•Growtika•39m ago•0 comments

Openbrowser: A browser for agent without Chromium

https://github.com/JasonHonKL/Openbrowser
4•JasonHEIN•39m ago•0 comments

The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/the-workers-opting-to-retire-instead-of-taking-on-ai-3400fb92
2•fortran77•41m ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Make AI Filter for Hacker News

2•gethly•44m ago•2 comments