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A comment on Ask HN: What are the key decision factors for open sourcing a product?.

Re:Ask HN: What are the key decision factors for open sourci... by yevlasenko on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:56AM (#40299576)
Depends what you want to do with it. My experience is only second hand but it seems that it's hard to commercialise open source. Two basic commercialisation strategies would be 1) providing premium support 2) hosting saas of your product. If it is a side project - than open sourcing might give you extra motivation to keep working on it.

From personal experience - I had a couple of open source repositories for javascript components with 3+k stars and it was impossible to monetize and was taking a lot of time and energy to maintain (ultimately giving me depression and I had to abandon those).

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Re:Ask HN: What are the key decision factors for open sourci... by jonsantillan on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:12PM (#40301250)
3+k stars is amazing. How long it took you to achieve this?

From my side. I have raise a small amount of money however wanted to see if what other people think about open sourcing and made their decision to do it

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Re:Ask HN: What are the key decision factors for open sourci... by yevlasenko on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @05:13PM (#40302773)
At the time it organically grew in a year or two, i've added my projects to the "awesome x" lists (like this one https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react) but thats pretty much it. Overall I think it was a great experience to learn from but I wish I didn't spend so much time on it.
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