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A comment on Ask HN: Is open sourcing my personal SaaS project a bad idea?.

Re:Ask HN: Is open sourcing my personal SaaS project a bad i... by phendrenad2 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @07:41PM (#26774611)
If anything, open-sourcing would give you help in fixing bugs and exploits. Also, the standard business model that has worked for many projects is, open-source it, then sell support.
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Re:Ask HN: Is open sourcing my personal SaaS project a bad i... by dtagames on Sunday April 11, 2021 @10:24PM (#26775560)
While the second part of this is true, don't count on anyone helping you fix bugs unless you pay them. The average number of contributors to GitHub projects is 1. All the big projects have paid people from FAANGs or non-profits who pay devs for open source bug fixes.
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