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OpenAI Acquires Rockset

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249 points colesantiago | 4 comments | 21 Jun 24 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.852s | source
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codezero ◴[21 Jun 24 15:53 UTC] No.40750821[source]▶
Really surprised to hear that they will be shutting down the SaaS business and all existing customers will need to offboard by the end of September.

Quite a few of my customers build on top of Rockset and it won’t be a smooth transition.

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1. ilrwbwrkhv ◴[21 Jun 24 19:42 UTC] No.40752956[source]▶
Classic VC funded saas.

Why people would build actual businesses on top of these fly at night Saas companies funded by VC money is beyond me.

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2. codezero ◴[21 Jun 24 20:08 UTC] No.40753286[source]▶
It's not really classic. There are many different kinds of exits, this one is pretty uncommon in my experience, especially for a company that's been around as long as it has and with the customers they have.
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3. hodgesrm ◴[23 Jun 24 16:21 UTC] No.40768538[source]▶
For another very similar example see FoundationDB, which was acquired and shuttered by Apple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986

More happily FoundationDB was later released as open source and is successfully used by many companies beyond Apple. Snowflake is a prominent example. [0]

[0] https://www.snowflake.com/blog/how-foundationdb-powers-snowf...

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4. codezero ◴[24 Jun 24 03:05 UTC] No.40772391{3}[source]▶
yes, this does happen, but when someone says "classic" it kind of implies "common" - this isn't a common outcome. I am directly affected by this one, so, trust me, I know, it sucks.