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Re:From idea to paying customer by eloisius on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:51AM (#32107138)
This is interesting to see, and reminds me that I really have no idea how to sell myself. I spent 7 years on this exact thing--a project to archive a community Slack server to a crawlable website, even with full-text search that (IMO) worked better than Slack search. I made the code available for other communities to use, and never once considered that this was a sellable product. I shut it down this year after a flurry of folks started asking to be opted out of the archive.

In case you want to run your own: https://github.com/zacstewart/tech404logs

Re:From idea to paying customer by solumunus on Friday July 15, 2022 @08:26AM (#32107365)
You really don't! You've finally learned that you have an established project which is sellable and your immediate reaction is to link your public repo for others. Why not make it private, develop the project and sell it? You're nearly there...