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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes)

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💼 Head of Product @tinyseed.com @microconf.com. 🖌️Author of Hello Web Design. Visual design principles and shortcuts for non-designers. 🥾Outdoorsy entreprenerd. Lives in Toronto, forever a California girl.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 6d

At Kinference, truth bombs being dropped.

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 17d

I love traveling solo, but sometimes I wonder if I am too good at it and am therefore bad at traveling with friends now.

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · 23d

Kicking things off at #MicroConf Europe: Istanbul. 👏

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TinySeed @tinyseed.com · Sep 1

🚨 TinySeed Fall Accelerator batch applications are officially open Sept 1-9! 🚨 Head to tinyseed.com/apply to apply, and join us on YouTube this Wed for an application Q&A: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7KI...

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Andrey Petrov @shazow.net · Jul 15

I wrote a comprehensive post dispelling many incorrect assumptions about Copyleft vs Permissive open source licenses.

If you author/contribute to open source code, it's worth reading and understanding these nuances!

shazow.net/posts/permis...

Screenshot of the blog post intro:

Permissive vs Copyleft Open Source
Published on Jul 9, 2025.
The premise of copyleft licenses is attractive: Create more open source!

With permissive licenses, someone can take the code and make proprietary modifications to it and sell it to other people without releasing the modifications. We want people to publish their improvements, right?

With copyleft, we can force people to publish their improvements to copyleft code. Businesses will want to use our code because creating it was so much work in the first place. We need copyleft if we want more contributors, more open source, more code re-use, more freedom.

Right?

Wrong.

In this post, I break down all the ways copyleft licenses fail to achieve their stated goals, and explain why permissive licenses succeed where copyleft fails.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Jul 15

Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche?

I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by.

Consultant recommendations welcome too!

MicroConf

Welcome to MicroConf - Where Independent SaaS Founders Launch, Meet, Learn, and Grow! MicroConf is the world’s most trusted community for bootstrapped SaaS founders. MicroConf is a community of SaaS...

www.youtube.com

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Jun 4

Planning an event for @tinyseed.com founders/community and I'm glad that, because it's not a public event, I can use ridiculous illustrations like this to make people laugh.

Enjoy the beach in your suits, folks!

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · May 17

Heck yeah! 👏👏👏

Sophie Oxley @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk · May 17

Such fun!!! Thanks for having me MicroConf. Such an awesome group to talk to ❤️

Next stop: Türkiye 🇹🇷 see you there @tracyosborn.com

MicroConf @microconf.com · May 15

“We’re comfortable talking about technology, but talking about value is hard, because value is very human.” @sophie.chiefstudio.co.uk #MicroConf Growth Retreat London

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Apr 28

@snook.ca Totally agree re: your "comments were a mistake" post, I've been thinking about this a lot lately. They really contributes to the community divide we have now, and has made divisive opinions seem more "the norm" and thus attracting followers rather than staying isolated.

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Apr 10

I've gotten an opportunity to use Webflow for work and goodness, is this a cool product. 🙌

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 27

I feel vindicated! Ain’t got the time to learn a new framework when jquery still does everything I need for my lil projects.

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 20

Weeee

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 20

Yeah, 100% agree

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 20

Same! :(

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John M. P. Knox @windaddict.bsky.social · Mar 18

True creativity comes from knowing when to break the rules, something that #AI isn’t good at. @tracyosborn.com #microconf @microconf.com

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John M. P. Knox @windaddict.bsky.social · Mar 18

Einar Vollset has a new look @MicroConf. Next up: Will #AI kill #SaaS? #microconf @tracyosborn.com

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MicroConf @microconf.com · Mar 17

We’re kicking off #MicroConf New Orleans with Dr. Sherry Walling as she dives into the psychological journey of entrepreneurship.

She’ll share actionable strategies to build resilience, manage stress, and protect your well-being as a founder. 🧘‍♀️

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 14

See you soon!

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 14

You’ll be missed!!

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 14

Heading to New Orleans for our flagship @microconf.com conference. 🎉

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Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 10

👏👏👏

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 9

Yess, yesss, the more I can get you here, the more likely that I will win

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 7

😆 Blast from the past there...

Tracy Osborn (tracymakes) @tracyosborn.com · Mar 7

I hope things are well for you! I have a $1,000 bet with Einar that Bluesky will be around still in a year so I'm rather motivated to keep it going. 😆

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