Personally, through all these conversations over the last years, it's become obvious to me that there is a better way for companies to manage the interface between frontend and backend that few of them know about, data layers.
We have the passion and the expertise to try and help a few more companies to use data layers and can justify it as a business because our main product at Stellate is GraphQl edge caching—which works with any GraphQL API, including those created by Fuse.js.
This is similar to why Vercel can invest so much in React and Next.js
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work. HN is the product of a rare set of initial conditions, and the funding aspect is a critical aspect of that. The symbiosis, if you like, between HN and YC is part of the DNA of both entities. No doubt it has some downsides (such as job ads on the front page), but I'd say the downsides are small enough that it wouldn't be worth the risk to try to minimize them further. Of course that's just my opinion.
Karate is open-source and will remain so. The IntelliJ plugin and Studio SaaS mentioned in the OP description are optional and you can find the pricing on our site.
Or what it the motivation for building this?