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Start9 Labs is a sovereign-computing company that sells personal servers and develops StartOS, a self-hosting operating system. Its products help individuals run open-source services, including Bitcoin and Lightning-related services, privately without relying on third parties.
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Current stage: Seed7 current maintainers5 active leads2 new active leads2 lead step-downs

Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026


Maintainer Intelligence

This view starts from the canonical internal-employee model. A maintainer is an internal employee who merged at least one pull request in a non-fork repository; external contributors, bots, and PR authors are not treated as causal. Active leads have merged within the last three months.

7

Current maintainers

5

Active leads

2

New active leads

2

Lead step-downs

0

Lead movements

0

Early lead departures

Signals as of Aug 10, 2026github.com/start9labs

Maintainers (19)

@helix-nineCurrent employee
PRs merged
40
Internal authors supported
1
Currently active authors
1
First merge
Jun 5, 2026
Last merge
Jul 25, 2026
Active leadEarly maintainer

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@gStart9Current employee
PRs merged
1
Internal authors supported
1
Currently active authors
1
First merge
May 31, 2022
Last merge
Apr 21, 2026

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@waterpleaCurrent employee
PRs merged
2
Internal authors supported
1
Currently active authors
0
First merge
Oct 11, 2022
Last merge
Jan 20, 2023
Early maintainer

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Maintainer Movements (2)

@ProofOfKeags moved lead merge authority to Alpen Labs.

Confirmed Feb 21, 2025 · Observed · Early maintainer

Last source merge Jun 27, 2022 · First destination merge Feb 21, 2025

@Blu-J moved lead merge authority to Alchemy.

Confirmed Feb 13, 2025 · Observed

Last source merge Nov 13, 2024 · First destination merge Dec 12, 2024