Sunny Gao's blog on startups, open source and productshttps://sunnygao.com/https://sunnygao.com/posts/answer-becomes-asftlphttps://sunnygao.com/posts/answer-becomes-asftlpThe Apache Software Foundation has officially announced that Apache Answer has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Answer is a modern open-source Q&A platform that helps users build their own knowledge bases and communities, enabling teams and communities to create, discover, and share knowledge together in a structured and efficient way.Tue, 28 Jan 2025 02:30:00 GMThttps://sunnygao.com/posts/segmentfault-answer-apachehttps://sunnygao.com/posts/segmentfault-answer-apacheOn October 24, 2022, SegmentFault announced the open-sourcing of its Q&A platform software, Answer. Today, exactly one year later, the Answer community announced that the project has passed its vote with flying colors — a unanimous yes — and officially entered the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator.Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:00:00 GMThttps://sunnygao.com/posts/joyqi-coscon22-answerhttps://sunnygao.com/posts/joyqi-coscon22-answerOn October 30, 2022, my technical co-founder Joyqi — co-founder of the open-source Q&A community software Answer — was invited to give a talk at COSCon'22, the China Open Source Conference, sharing his thinking behind the Answer project. Below is a transcript of his talk.Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:36:03 GMThttps://sunnygao.com/posts/sifou-new-chapterhttps://sunnygao.com/posts/sifou-new-chapterThis is an article written by my technical co-founder Joyqi on the occasion of ONES' acquisition of the SegmentFault community. It also captures some of his reflections on ten years of entrepreneurship, and is reproduced here in full.Tue, 03 May 2022 21:41:44 GMThttps://sunnygao.com/posts/sifou-brandhttps://sunnygao.com/posts/sifou-brandFor a long time, our community had only the English brand SegmentFault and the fully-spelled-out domain segmentfault.com. While the word is familiar to programmers, many people still didn't know how to pronounce it — and for non-programmers, remembering how to spell it was even harder. This is the story of how we got our Chinese brand name, Sifou.Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:42:52 GMThttps://sunnygao.com/posts/mva-recruitment-alumnihttps://sunnygao.com/posts/mva-recruitment-alumniMicrosoft Ventures Accelerator has opened applications for its fifth batch — fellow tech founders, seize the opportunity and apply! Just yesterday, on April 10, 2014, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator officially kicked off recruitment for its fifth batch of startups. As a Batch 4 alumnus, here's our experience at SegmentFault — and why you should apply.Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:30:00 GMT