[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":142},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page-\u002Fa-living-dev-team-multiverse":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":131,"description":132,"extension":133,"image":134,"kind":135,"meta":136,"navigation":137,"order":131,"path":138,"seo":139,"stem":140,"__hash__":141},"content\u002Fa-living-dev-team-multiverse.md","a living dev-team multiverse — BobHub, or GitHub as an organism",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":124},"minimark",[9,13,18,25,28,31,37,41,48,58,66,72,76,79,97,107,114,121],[10,11,12],"p",{},"This is the example I use when someone wants to picture where I think all of this goes. It's the answer to \"sounds crazy — show me one concrete thing.\" So here it is.",[14,15,17],"h2",{"id":16},"bobhub","BobHub",[10,19,20,21],{},"BobHub is really just a name to picture the concept — open source that evolves itself. A living multiverse of dev-teams. ",[22,23,24],"strong",{},"GitHub as an organism.",[10,26,27],{},"I absolutely do not have the capital or the power to build it. So: feel free.",[10,29,30],{},"I'd say it's so big that even the big players might need to partner up to pull it off — GitHub + Anthropic, GitLab + OpenAI, even Bitbucket + zAI. Whoever builds it:",[32,33,34],"nerd",{},[10,35,36],{},"don't forget to send me money. :)",[14,38,40],{"id":39},"the-concept","The concept",[10,42,43,44,47],{},"A Bobiverse is a ",[22,45,46],{},"team environment."," Strip it down and it's two things:",[49,50,51,55],"ul",{},[52,53,54],"li",{},"tools",[52,56,57],{},"a communication layer",[10,59,60,61,65],{},"Now put a lot of those next to each other and let them connect. At that point you don't have a code host anymore — a passive place where repos sit and wait for a human. You have something that senses, reacts and adapts. Open source that maintains and improves ",[62,63,64],"em",{},"itself",", across a multiverse of connected teams.",[10,67,68,69],{},"That's the whole leap: from a warehouse to an ",[22,70,71],{},"organism.",[14,73,75],{"id":74},"possible-business-models","Possible business models",[10,77,78],{},"I'm a builder, not a suit, but even I can see two obvious ones:",[49,80,81,87],{},[52,82,83,86],{},[22,84,85],{},"Companies donate"," — and in return the deployment keeps running.",[52,88,89,92,93,96],{},[22,90,91],{},"Open source offers support contracts"," — and here's the nice part: you don't need to own the infrastructure to offer support. You get the infrastructure ",[62,94,95],{},"out of the need"," for it.",[10,98,99,100,103,104],{},"And then there's the one a friend pushed me on. He asked: ",[62,101,102],{},"\"why would anyone still contribute to open source at all?\""," Fair question — and here's how I'd picture the answer: ",[22,105,106],{},"everyone participates.",[10,108,109,110,113],{},"GitHub already tracks who contributed how much. So you'd just earn your share of it. A team gets tokens; depending on the funding model, a slice keeps the digital team running — but a slice ",[22,111,112],{},"always"," goes to the real, human team behind it too. So-and-so percent to the digital side, yet the people always pocket a few tokens.",[10,115,116,117,120],{},"Sure — change one line in some giant repo where your share is 0.0001%, and you'll probably get one token per ten billion. But hey: ",[22,118,119],{},"one token more than nothing."," The point was never the payout. The point is that everyone participates, and everyone gets to live a little off it too.",[10,122,123],{},"Is this finished thinking? No. It's a sketch. But it's the kind of sketch I can't get out of my head.",{"title":125,"searchDepth":126,"depth":126,"links":127},"",2,[128,129,130],{"id":16,"depth":126,"text":17},{"id":39,"depth":126,"text":40},{"id":74,"depth":126,"text":75},null,"BobHub is just a picture for the idea: open source that evolves itself. A living multiverse of dev-teams — GitHub as an organism. I can't build it; maybe the big players can, together.","md","\u002Fogg-bobhub.png","concept",{},true,"\u002Fa-living-dev-team-multiverse",{"title":5,"description":132},"a-living-dev-team-multiverse","a5KX77hcD_xhncfnLq3QDvjFuS3vPOOIvlZowQX8aFM",1782576224704]