In the high-stakes world of open-source infrastructure, visibility is currency. Duraspace.org, the organization behind the DSpace repository software, appears to have spent all of it. With a mere 85 monthly visitors and a skeleton crew of 32 employees, this isn't a growth story—it's a digital ghost ship haunting the graveyard of once-dominant platforms.

"When your traffic is lower than a local coffee shop's website, you aren't a competitor; you're a case study in obsolescence."

The narrative here is one of quiet retreat. Unlike open-source giants like Red Hat or Mozilla that command massive communities, Duraspace operates in the shadows. The 32 employees aren't scaling a product; they are likely maintaining legacy codebases for institutions that haven't migrated yet. It’s a maintenance mode existence, funded by inertia rather than innovation.

• The 'Duraspace' brand appears functionally dead in the public web sphere.
• Revenue ($1.7M) suggests a closed, B2B support model rather than open community growth.
• The lack of tech stack data indicates a static, perhaps outdated, digital infrastructure.
• A team of 32 is too large for a ghost project but too small for a competitive startup.