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Hi Pilif, I led the Seed round in Sentry and am on the Board representing Accel. The single most important part of investing in Sentry for me was the fact that it's Open Source and people love using it. The funding is intended to continue that tradition while also allowing Sentry to more aggressively invest in better mobile support, better support for other languages/environments like C# and SpringBoot, a deeper feature set (Breadcrumbs is a good example http://blog.getsentry.com/2016/05/04/breadcrumbs.html), better support, etc. Once upon a time I wrote software and I was always annoyed that I couldn't only use Open Source tools so I could audit their code and fork/patch them more easily as needed. Part of the reason for that was that investors have often shied away from products that cater to developers dismissing them as bad business. I think that's bullshit. If everything is going to become software, then the people building software are the most important folks in the world. People like you willing to pay a fair price mean it's quite possible to build a huge business. It's important for us to continue to build a great, Open Source product and offer a SaaS option that's cheaper than doing it yourself. We plan to continue doing that. For now, the thing I don't understand is all the people using proprietary crash reporting tools. Our goal is to make Sentry (Open Source or Saas) the strictly dominant solution for crash reporting. If we can accomplish that and offer a…

Sentry is both SAAS[1] and open source[2], but has an interesting history. It was originally started as an internal tool at Disqus[3]. Its developers were able to open-source it, and spin it off into a side business. The developers then moved on from Disqus to other companies but kept getsentry.com running till it was profitable enough them to go full-time on it. I'm using the open-source version as part of a solution at $dayjob. So how does this benefit getsentry.com? Well first of all, I'm talking about it here. They could also potentially sell my employer a professional services contract if I needed some level of customization that I can't do myself. Finally, I've contributed bug fixes and code changes which benefit my use cases, but also make it a better product for other sentry users. So, win/win. As an aside, the sentry developers are great to work with. Very responsive to issues on github and they seem to be available on the sentry IRC channel almost all the time. [1] http://getsentry.com/ [2] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry [3] http://blog.getsentry.com/2013/07/17/sentry-at-disqus.html and http://stackshare.io/posts/founder-stories-how-sentry-built-their-open…

Is this a direct rip off of Sentry Breadcrumbs??? http://blog.getsentry.com/2016/05/04/breadcrumbs.html