The company behind this is Transloadit. We provide tus & uppy for free, hoping that a fraction of our open source communities will use our hosted versions (of companion and tus) and optionally our commercial encoding service because they work well together.
That could make our public coding efforts worthwhile financially. It’s a bit of a gamble. We’re believers/biased in part because we just enjoy working on oss, and in part because we’re quite a lean company and don’t need to make boatloads of money to make investors happy or anything (we’re bootstrapped since 2009, so no investors, and ramen profitable since 2012. Me and my cofounder are both devs and not in it to get yachts, but rather to have nice and rewarding work, basically)
Whether it really also becomes a financial success remains to be seen. 3y of devtime isn’t cheap so it'll be a bit sad if there is no ROI at all, but we'll comfort ourselves with the thought that we'll be able to provide a better and more reliable uploader to Transloadit's existing encoding customers (because going open has made these projects better thanks to exposure to more minds and environments), and making them very happy, even if there’s 100x more people that don’t make us money.
That could make our public coding efforts worthwhile financially. It’s a bit of a gamble. We’re believers/biased in part because we just enjoy working on oss, and in part because we’re quite a lean company and don’t need to make boatloads of money to make investors happy or anything (we’re bootstrapped since 2009, so no investors, and ramen profitable since 2012. Me and my cofounder are both devs and not in it to get yachts, but rather to have nice and rewarding work, basically)
Whether it really also becomes a financial success remains to be seen. 3y of devtime isn’t cheap so it'll be a bit sad if there is no ROI at all, but we'll comfort ourselves with the thought that we'll be able to provide a better and more reliable uploader to Transloadit's existing encoding customers (because going open has made these projects better thanks to exposure to more minds and environments), and making them very happy, even if there’s 100x more people that don’t make us money.