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> Shibuya WORLD DOMINATION PLAN (1)

*Month 3*: Top 10 security OSS project su GitHub

*Month 6*: 10k+ stars, 1000+ prod deployments

*Month 9*: Conference talks (OWASP, DevSecOps Days, Black Hat Arsenal)

*Month 12*: Industry standard, "the modern WAF", competitors che copiano te

## MONETIZATION ROADMAP

*Week 12-16*: Free tier (self-hosted, community support)

- Goal: 1000 GitHub stars

- Goal: 100 production deployments

- Goal: Dev che parlano di te su Twitter

*Week 16-20*: Pro tier launch ($49-99/mo) - Managed rules auto-update

- ML models ottimizzati

- Priority support

- Advanced dashboard

- Goal: primi 50 paying customers ($5k MRR)

*Week 20-24*: Enterprise tier (custom pricing) - Multi-tenant

- SSO/SAML

- Compliance reports (PCI-DSS, SOC2)

- SLA + dedicated support

- Custom integrations

- Goal: primi 5 enterprise deals ($50k+ ARR)

*Month 6+*: Exit strategy - Seed funding ($1-2M) o bootstrap to profitability

- Series A ($10M+) se traction è pazzesca

- Acquisition offer da competitor? (Cloudflare che compra per killare? NO GRAZIE, fuck them )

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swahtoday at 8:20 PM

Speaking to LLMs looks fresh!

abusaidmtoday at 8:21 PM

They have a roadmap of where they want to be, I think that’s normal. As long as they don’t pull a fast one on the oss community then I think if this catch on and it’s worth it then even if they sell the community can fork if the new owners are not so welcoming.

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