But, this rapid growth came at some costs. We let sustainable infrastructure for moderation slip to the back-burner since we could just hire extra moderators to compensate, and more and more of my time as the founder was taken up by things that didn’t make Modrinth better. Bugs and technical debt also gradually infected our codebase as we focused on hyper-growth over maintenance.
In short, forgoing the venture route would allow us to build Modrinth independently at a sustainable pace and put our creators, community, open-source nature, and values first, without having to worry about expectations of profit or growth.
They also had to lay off about 7 employees as part of this, so it couldn't have been an easy decision.
The official blog post has some reasons:
They also had to lay off about 7 employees as part of this, so it couldn't have been an easy decision.
Pretty sweet.
Hell yeah.