Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software?

Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software? by josevalerio on Monday May 09, 2022 @02:43AM (#31311295)

I really like this approach. Typically, we're building some sort of tool that does some undifferentiated heavy lifting that is not core to our customer's business. The last thing they want is to dedicate their most expensive resource (dev time) to maintain a tool that they themselves didn't even build from scratch.

Nice :)

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Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software? by pimterry on Monday May 09, 2022 @04:01AM (#31311684)

Exactly. You do probably lose income from a small percentage of dedicated hobbyists who're determined to use it for free and self-host, but those are probably not your core target market anyway.

And I think many of those people are the kind of people likely to add their own features and contribute them back, and making it easier makes to fork & self host makes that far more likely.

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