From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)

从开源爆款到OpenAI(访谈)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2026-06-06

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This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, how Spectrum became part of GitHub and eventually helped shape GitHub Discussions, the founder growth that came from building Stellate, the GraphQL cache that turned into a dual acquisition by Shopify and The Guild, and why ChatGPT apps feel like a new surface for software.
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  • What's up?

  • Welcome back.

  • This is the Changelog.

  • I'm Adam Stachowiak, and today I'm joined by Max Stoiber, talking about the long road from open source to OpenAI.

  • Max has shipped a ton of open source.

  • He helped build Spectrum with the Spec.fm crew, sold a GraphQL CDN after realizing he captured almost the entire market.

  • He helped Shopify ship Horizon in six months.

  • And now he works on the ChatGPT plugin directory and the app platform.

  • A massive thank you to our friends and our partners at Fly.io.

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  • Okay, let's do this.

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  • Nicky, what is a field CTO?

  • So I get that question a lot and it's, you know, half the people understand it, half the people don't.

  • So a field CTO, I describe it very simply as we're DevRel for the C-suite.

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