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A comment on Ask HN: Should I make my project open source to get users?.

Re:Ask HN: Should I make my project open source to get users? by patio11 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:17AM (#22625285)
They probably won't use it if you make it open source.

Find people who will pay for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I make my project open source to get users? by SunghoYahng on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:21AM (#22625306)
Thank you. But people didn't seem to hate paying, but to worry about locking their data into the product in its infancy.
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Re:Ask HN: Should I make my project open source to get users? by Raed667 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:30PM (#22630230)
How about a data export tool?
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