1. A Startup Case Study
of Open Source
Software
Leon Ho
Founder of Stepcase

3. Why Open Source
for Startup?
• Free as in free speech
• Lower cost

4. Infrastructure
• Development
• Lifehack Blog
• Stepcase Backend

5. Lifehack
iPhone
Apps
Plugins
SC Backend
GIT Wordpress Redmine
PHP Rails
Xcode
Memcached Lighttpd Apache MySQL
Monit
Mac OSX Red Hat Enterprise Linux

6. Development
deployment
Developer gitosis GIT
Developer Redmine
UI Designer Dropbox

7. gitosis
• Add an unix user for gitosis
• ‘sudo -H -u git gitosis-init < /tmp/
id_rsa.pub’
• Add extra public keys into keydir/
• Edit gitosis.conf
• Git commit and push

8. gitosis
[gitosis]
[group gitosis-admin]
writable = gitosis-admin
members = llch
[group devel]
writable = iphone/darkroom iphone/stalker iphone/enroute iphone/meetingtime iphone/
lifehack iphone/mtrar iphone/coterie
members = llch jkwan
[group intern]
writable = iphone/enroute iphone/meetingtime iphone/lifehack iphone/mtrar iphone/
darkroom
members = blei
[group designer]
writable = web/stepcase web/lifehack
members = llch
[group deploy]
readonly = web/stepcase web/lifehack
members = deploy

9. Redmine

10. SC Backend
Ruby on Rails
mod_rails
MySQL
Apache
Stepcase Lifehack S3
Web Blog
EC2 Server EC2 Server
Capistrano
GIT

11. Tips
• Keep it simple
• Automate whatever possible. Don’t overdo
• Extra bits requires extra admin effort