Ask HN: Is it a good idea to open source your webapps source code?

2 points

11 years ago

My brother and I are building a website for the Bolivian market:

https://github.com/oceanis

It's nothing new, nothing unique in terms of algorithms or anything fancy. Our prime selling point is speed of the app, and openness via our API.

I decided to open source our ember-cli frontend app, and our Rails 4 api server.

Pro's to this I feel are exposure as a company, a literally -real- portfolio example ("Just check out our github"), and growing as a company in Bolivia.

What might be the cons of this? Has anybody open sourced their core and why? What are the angles I'm not contemplating?