DevFlight

01 / WHAT IT BUILT

What the company did

DevFlight was a Y Combinator Winter 2019 startup founded by Victor Bordo and Tony Mastrorio that set out to revamp the business model for open-source software. Positioned as 'agents for open-source maintainers', it built a marketplace pairing open-source maintainers with companies willing to pay them: DevFlight worked with both sides to scope projects, made hiring maintainers simple for companies, and took a 25% transaction fee on deals.

03 / EVENT HISTORY

Events in the structured record

1. 2019
   Launched

   DevFlight launched in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch as a marketplace connecting open-source maintainers with paying companies, taking a 25% transaction fee.

2. Pending
   Inactive

   Y Combinator lists DevFlight's company page as Inactive; no public statement about the shutdown was published.