Re:The Incompatibility of Open Core and Profit
by kgodey on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:50PM
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> It’s worrying, and maybe telling, that you don’t mention whom the project benefits.
I was trying to avoid talking about the specifics of the project (I didn't want to come across as self-promotional).
We only did our first release this week, so no one is invested in the project (yet). We have hypotheses about who it benefits but haven't had enough time to test them. Our current goal is to build a user base and that will give us the information we need to work on long term sustainability.
Re:The Incompatibility of Open Core and Profit
by teddyh on Sunday March 05, 2023 @05:31AM
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> no one is invested in the project (yet). We have hypotheses about who it benefits but haven't had enough time to test them.
You mean to say you built an entire project, large enough to need “a few full-time people” to maintain it, without ever getting feedback from actual users? Chance alone almost guarantees that you built the wrong thing and nobody will want to use it.
It’s worrying, and maybe telling, that you don’t mention whom the project benefits. Who are the people who want this project to exist? Those are the people who would be willing to pay to ensure its continued existence and maintenance. Exactly what form that takes is mostly psychological, and will therefore depend on what types of other expenses those people are used to paying, and how they usually pay them.