I know folks are supposed to have reasons for open sourcing things and I might a bit naive here, but the best answer I can give you is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like open source. I couldn't find any strong reasons why it couldn't be open source.
But what I think happens to a lot of open source consumer products is that they're primary feature is being open source. Outside of Hacker News, we don't tell advertise that we're open source. It's not important.
For most people, we're a really good CBT app, not an open source CBT app. Our competitive advantage to the average person is that we're good, not that we're open source.
That said, I think there's advantages for customers. You can be reasonably certain we're protecting your data well. If you don't like something, you can suggest a change. If you want to use Quirk in your research, we're, in general, the most open about things.
To be clear, we're not 100% open source, there's a small closed-source API that quirk uses to do some of it's features.
I like open source. I couldn't find any strong reasons why it couldn't be open source.
But what I think happens to a lot of open source consumer products is that they're primary feature is being open source. Outside of Hacker News, we don't tell advertise that we're open source. It's not important.
For most people, we're a really good CBT app, not an open source CBT app. Our competitive advantage to the average person is that we're good, not that we're open source.
That said, I think there's advantages for customers. You can be reasonably certain we're protecting your data well. If you don't like something, you can suggest a change. If you want to use Quirk in your research, we're, in general, the most open about things.
To be clear, we're not 100% open source, there's a small closed-source API that quirk uses to do some of it's features.