Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software?
We've collected 34 approaches to monetize open-source software in an open github repository (https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization).What have we missed?
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Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software?
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:51AM (#31293079)
Good idea. Looks like Paid Hosting similar to Elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc. that can later be converted into a Startup.
Btw. the benefit of a hosted version is not only that you do to not have to host it yourself, but also that the maintenance (updating, upgrading, scaling servers, backups, etc.) is done by the hoster.
Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software?
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:44AM (#31293053)
There is not "one" community of OSS developers who either all want money or not. Some devs want to monetize / get something back and maybe work full-time on their OSS projects and others are totally against monetizing OSS.
From a current survey it looks like 41% of OSS developers want to monetize and 33% would like to work full-time [https://dev.to/joergrech/state-of-oss-monetization-2022-surv...]
So if you have a better approach to monetize OSS go for it.
Re:Ask HN: How to Monetize Open-Source Software?
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:02AM (#31292917)
The rules for "Show HN" mention that this kind of info / contribution is off-topic so we placed it in "Ask HN" to get more feedback and hopefully some additional ideas to monetize OSS.
Maybe we will post it on Show HN in the future if we have more approaches.