FSJam Podcast@FSJamorg

Oct 10

Anthony Campolo (ajcwebdev)

@ajcwebdev

Oct 10

Seems like the great open source and startup consolidation is continuing to accelerate so I asked Gibbity to give me a breakdown of how all the different projects and companies from the FSJam era (2020-2023) fared that were featured on @FSJamorg.

If you listened to the pod back in the day this is for you. It broke them down into 5 categories.

I'm sure there's a lot of individual choices people could quibble with, so feel free to tear apart this list, I find it pretty interesting nonetheless:

THRIVING / SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESS

• Supabase — The standout startup winner, raising $500M at a $10B pre-money valuation in June 2026.

• Clerk — Strong commercial growth, reporting 15,000+ applications and 200M managed users at its October 2025 funding round.

• React Query / TanStack Query — A huge ecosystem success with tens of millions of weekly downloads and continued development.

• TypeScript — Firmly established, with Microsoft’s continued investment producing the native TypeScript 7 compiler in July 2026.

• Storybook — A durable open-source success that continues shipping substantive releases.

• Redux Toolkit — Remains actively maintained and continues improving its state-management and data-fetching tools.

• Docusaurus — A durable documentation framework with continued releases throughout 2026.

• Cloudinary — An established business whose developer community reached four million in 2026.

• Storyblok — Scaled into a serious enterprise CMS company, with an $80M Series C and continued enterprise customer wins.

• Prisma — Remains a major player, expanding beyond its ORM into hosted Postgres and application compute.

• Netlify — Still substantial, reporting 10M developers in January 2026.

• Flyio — Raised another $25M in July 2026 while reporting its strongest financial months and expanding into AI infrastructure.

• Warp — Reported nearly a million developers while expanding from a terminal into agent development and orchestration.

• The Guild — Continues productive development across Hive, GraphQL Codegen and its wider tooling.

ACQUIRED / ABSORBED / REINVENTED

• Astro — Acquired by Cloudflare in January 2026 while remaining open source and broadly adopted.

• GreenSock / GSAP — Acquired by Webflow in 2024, with previously paid plugins becoming free in 2025.

• StepZen — Acquired by IBM in 2023 and renamed API Connect for GraphQL.

• Quirrel — Acquired by Netlify in February 2022, with its founder joining to build scheduling capabilities.

• Remix — Joined Shopify in 2022, merged its original framework into React Router, and subsequently launched the substantially different Remix 3.

• Gitpod — Rebranded as Ona in September 2025 and repositioned around AI software engineering agents.

• Sequin — Its team joined Notion in January 2026, while its open-source CDC code remains available.

• Eleventy — Joined Font Awesome in 2024 and became Build Awesome in 2026, continuing the original project.

• RedwoodJS — Original GraphQL development wound down, with CedarJS continuing that lineage and RedwoodSDK launching its newer Cloudflare-focused framework.

• Learn With Jason — Continues within CodeTV, which lists nine seasons and 424 episodes.

• Hydrogen — Remains actively developed by Shopify, with a 2026 rebuild moving toward framework- and runtime-independent commerce tooling.

HEALTHY SPECIALISTS / STILL BUILDING

• Prismic — Remains an established CMS with current customers and an increasing focus on AI-assisted website production.

• React Bricks — An active specialist CMS with identifiable customers and new partnerships in 2026.

• Cloud 66 — A durable business that explicitly describes itself as profitable.

• Flightcontrol — Continues shipping infrastructure features and serving customers, though public evidence of breakout scale is limited.

• Sizzy — Remains an actively developed indie product, with new integrations and browser updates.

• Stately / XState — XState continues advancing, although the project’s health is easier to establish than Stately’s commercial performance.

• Solid — Continues healthy independent development, with Solid 2.0 reaching release candidate in August 2026.

• Qwik — Remains an active specialist framework with ongoing v2 beta development.

• Partytown — Continues as a specialist performance project under QwikDev.

• Marko — Continues progressing, with Marko 6 becoming the default npm release in June 2026.

• Elm — Remains niche but resumed compiler releases in 2026 with a renewed roadmap toward 1.0.

• Bit — Continues operating and evolving its component architecture alongside Hope AI workflows.

• FeatureBoard — Remains available as an Arkahna product, with limited public information about growth.

• Elements — Chris Mather continues developing it, now emphasizing integrated tooling for developers and AI agents.

• Plenti — Remains an available open-source project with a modest continuing operation.

• Causeworks — Continues providing nonprofit website services and explicitly uses Plenti.

• Bedrock Layout — A small project that remains maintained, with repository updates in September 2026.

• This Dot Labs — Continues operating as a consultancy with a broader focus on AI.

• Echobind — Continues consulting and launched additional products in 2026.

• Serverless Guru — Continues operating while broadening its cloud and AI work.

• Modern CSS — Remains available as an educational resource.

• PodRocket — Continues publishing, with episodes released in 2026.

• Talking Serverless — Has continued publishing through at least late 2025.

• Cooperpress — Remains a substantial newsletter business, reporting a combined audience above 450,000 subscribers.

STILL AROUND / LOST MOMENTUM / UNDER PRESSURE

• Blitz.js — Survives as a Next.js toolkit, but development momentum is weak and maintenance concerns remain visible.

• Nexus — Retains users, but its stable release is years old and the project shows limited forward momentum.

• Bison — Echobind survives, but this particular starter largely stalled, with its published package roughly four years old.

• Amplify / DataStore — Amplify continues, while the original DataStore approach has been overtaken by newer directions and AWS now provides migration guidance.

SHUT DOWN / DISCONTINUED / UNRESOLVED OUTCOMES

• Fauna — Its hosted database service shut down on May 30, 2025.

• Snaplet — The startup shut down, with some staff joining Supabase rather than the company being acquired.

• Everfund — Closed, with its official farewell referencing the November 22, 2024 closure notice.

• Layer0 / Edgio — Layer0 was acquired by Limelight, but successor Edgio ultimately entered bankruptcy and its CDN wound down in January 2025.

• Slinkity — Its repository was archived in March 2024, ending active development.

• Lambdragon — Ended after Aldo Bucchi’s death before its full release, a tragic circumstance rather than a normal commercial failure.

• Tapesh — Appears discontinued, although a first-party closure account remains unconfirmed.

• Mintbean — Appears inactive as the original hackathon and education business, but no definitive shutdown announcement was found.

• UserVitals — Its current service status and any formal closure remain unverified.

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@jonkkillian

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