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Lessons learned from buying an open source repo
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Our tiny startup recently acquired the most popular open-source Unity MCP repo on GitHub, and things didn’t quite go as planned. The old URL redirects to the new one, so in theory existing posts/backlinks keep working.We also agreed the original creator wouldn’t reuse the “unity-mcp” repo name under his GitHub profile, which could break redirects.Stars, watchers, and forks were preserved. Because it felt big to our tiny team, we prepped a press release and pitched it under embargo to several outlets (TechCrunch, SiliconAngle, TechForge, VentureBeat, etc.
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