Start9
Maker of StartOS and home servers for self-hosting, which Keagan McClelland says grew out of a group of core engineers leaving Salt Lending in 2019.
The wiki's angle: on S17 E38 Vlad said Start9's Matt Hill is “a very hardcore supporter of BIP 110”, while adding that he could not blame him for siding with his customers.[5]
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Origin
On S17 E38 Keagan McClelland said that in 2019 a group of core engineers left Salt Lending and “Start9 is what came out of that”[1]. He said Start9 “got started” in the summer of 2019[2].
Products
The Start9 GitHub monorepo calls its flagship StartOS “an open-source Linux distribution for running a personal server” that handles installation, networking and backups of self-hosted services[3]. The company's site describes StartOS 0.4.0 as “a ground-up rewrite of the operating system for your personal data center” after nearly three years of work[4]. It also sells Server One and a RISC-V router running StartWRT[4].
BIP-110
Vlad said on S17 E38 that he does not agree with Start9's Matt Hill much nowadays “because he's a very hardcore supporter of BIP 110”[5]. See BIP-110[5].
References
- episodeS17 E38: Keagan McClelland — “Start9 is what came out of that”▶ listen at 6:58timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS17 E38: Keagan McClelland on joining Judica to work on Sapio▶ listen at 9:41timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- primaryStart9 monorepo README (StartOS), GitHub Start9Labs/start-os [archived]
- primarystart9.com homepage (read 13 Nov 2026) [archived]
- episodeS17 E38: Vlad on Matt Hill of Start9 and BIP-110▶ listen at 7:20timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]