Re:Commoning open-source versus growth-hacking open-source
by tanepiper on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:37AM
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This is something that actually drives me a way from using "a thing" - that some team post something "open source" - but in reality it's a product and there's a pricing tab on the website.
I think we've overloaded the term for sure. I'd prefer honesty - "hey we have a new product/service/platform! We've opened up our customer tooling source code and made it free and available for anyone to contribute too"
To me releasing open-source to specifically try get people to sign up to a paid product is a sales tool.
Re:Commoning open-source versus growth-hacking open-source
by adrn10 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:24PM
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So how do you like the article's suggestion to separate "growth hacking" from "commoning"? Are you saying that both are misleading, or agreeing with it? Not sure I get your point
I think we've overloaded the term for sure. I'd prefer honesty - "hey we have a new product/service/platform! We've opened up our customer tooling source code and made it free and available for anyone to contribute too"
To me releasing open-source to specifically try get people to sign up to a paid product is a sales tool.