Resources and insights
Real news and infrequent announcements about what we’re up to at Scarf: products releases, tool updates, open betas, job opportunities, and more.
Introducing Scarf's New Pricing Model
Today we are launching a new pricing model for new Scarf accounts going forward, and we'd love your feedback. For customers already on a paid Scarf plan, your billing will not be impacted by this change.
You Can’t Build an Open Source Business Blind: Stirling PDF Case Study
StirlingPDF is one of the largest PDF platforms on GitHub, with an open-source core and an enterprise offering around it. Their platform includes:
Building a Predictable ICP: How Liquibase uses Scarf for GTM Operations
Liquibase is the open source standard for automating database change, with more than 100 million downloads and a community that has been growing for over a decade. Teams adopt Liquibase Community to keep database schema changes in lockstep with fast-moving application releases, then graduate to Liquibase Secure when they need governance, compliance, and control at scale.
From “Flying Blind” to Full Visibility: How Wherobots Uses Scarf to Guide GTM and DevRel
Wherobots is a Series A-stage startup building the Spatial Intelligence Cloud that makes it possible to build production-ready data products with data about the physical world up to 20X faster and at a fraction of the cost of existing approaches. Founded by the creators of Apache Sedona (used by more than 20,000 organizations), Wherobots brings the performance and governance of a modern lakehouse architecture to spatial data workloads through its optimized Sedna-compatible engine and SedonaDB, a spatial-first single-machine runtime. Teams move from complex, do-it-yourself pipelines to 5–20× faster processing without having to manage infrastructure.
Scarf Go SDK is Now Available
Scarf's Go SDK is now available on GitHub. You can now send telemetry to Scarf from your Golang code more easily than ever, with things like user opt-out being managed for you.
Scarf's GitBook Integration Is Live!
A common request we've received from the Scarf community is that many of you are using GitBook for your docs, which does not directly support a way to embed your Scarf tracking pixel.
Scarf AI Public Beta
We often talk about the power of open source usage data, but anyone who has worked with any analytics tools knows that data is not particularly useful on its own. Understanding what insights to care about, what is actionable, and how to solve day-to-day business problems with data can sometimes just be a lot of work -- whether that's manual analysis, building automations, or even just remembering to look at the insights regularly. We've heard the feedback on where Scarf users are spending too much of their time and where they can be made more efficient. Fortunately, most of the common problems are where precisely AI assistance shines the brightest.
Tracking Usage of Your MCP Server with Scarf
Scarf Gateway provides a very simple redirect layer to track requests through arbitrary URL templates. Follow these instructions to track downloads and requests to your MCP Server.
Sync Scarf Data with Salesforce
Keeping your Salesforce accounts in sync with Scarf’s company data gives your team a clearer picture of how organizations are engaging with your open-source project.
Turn Your Open Source Adoption into Revenue with Scarf + Salesforce & Hubspot
Open source has been a taboo group–do not market to, do not sell to, do not track. Companies offering open source are pouring resources into the project, but it remains a black hole for go-to-market teams—high adoption, but no clear path to conversion. KPIs for open source teams are download numbers and activity, rarely is it ARR.
How RisingWave is Driving Open Source Growth with Scarf
RisingWave, an open-source streaming database, is reshaping real-time data processing with its SQL-powered platform. With over 7,000 GitHub stars, the RisingWave open-source community continues to grow. However, as they increased adoption, they encountered a common challenge for open-source businesses: understanding and leveraging that adoption to drive enterprise revenue.
That 2024 wrap-up Scarf-up we sent you is accurate
That 2024 wrap-up Scarf-up we sent you is accurate
How Weaviate Leverages Open Source Usage Data to Drive RevOps
"At the end of the day, it’s all about turning open source usage into enterprise adoption—and Scarf helps us do that.” - Soham Maniar, Director of RevOps, Weaviate
Track More Companies with your Scarf Account
Monthly Tracked Companies (MTCs) are the organizations actively engaging with your open source project. This includes downloads of your packages, views of your documentation, and any other type of interaction with your software. Scarf identifies and surfaces these organizations so you can better understand your audience and prioritize outreach.
Scarf's 2024 Wrapped: What we built together this year
As 2024 wraps up, we’ve been reflecting on everything that wouldn’t have been possible without the Scarf community and our amazing customers. It’s been a big year for Scarf—and for the open source projects we’re proud to support.
Scarf Summit Recap: Open Source Insights with Weaviate & Common Room
The Scarf Summit brought together open source industry leaders to explore how open source usage signals are shaping the future of commercial open source companies. We were joined by Soham Maniar, Director of RevOps at Weaviate and Kevin White, Head of Marketing at Common Room, to expand on leveraging open source usage data for sales and marketing campaigns.
Track your Project’s Documentation Views
This playbook will guide you through the steps to set up and embed a Scarf Pixel on your documentation pages, README files, or any other web properties associated with your project, in this case we will focus specifically on documentation. Scarf Pixels enable you to gain visibility into who’s reading your documentation—an essential part of understanding your audience, their level of interest, and where they are in the Open Source Adoption Funnel.
How We Use Scarf for Open Source Marketing
Open source projects generate a treasure trove of data (downloads, doc views, project usage), but most open source companies aren’t tapping into it. That interest is there, but how do you connect it to real business opportunities through marketing?
