Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship. Which seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
Personally I think Patreon or other product/services to fund a project is a good way, They could fund them through sponsorship/Patreon like what Django REST Framework or Martin Kleppmann and Daniel Roy Greenfeld who does that through their book sales.
Like personally if I know your 1 of the contributor for 1 of my favourite open source tech, i would purchase it because i want to support your work.
Patreons / GitHub Sponsorships are definitely a good start!
Book sales can also work, I guess not everyone is prone to writing though.
I think Filippo summarized it really well in this post, why going beyond sponsorships and incorporating might also be a good idea: blog.filippo.io/professional-maint...
There are many paths to build open source sustainably.
Max is a life enhancer for tech & entrepreneurship. Which seeks to blend both to build innovative products or services for the world that solves hard problems.
To be fair i would prefer them to incoporate as a startup and prevent any legal problems that might hurt their reputations or cause them to get into trouble with their customers.
I see Open Source Startup (OSS) like GatsbyJS or Dev.to requires the founders to focus on business aspect while still mantaining their core focus of product development in their Open Source Product. Which really require a different blend of founders/co-founders that knows of open source.
Like Guy Kiyosaki says "you need two people for your startup a salesman and creator without that combination it becomes harder to build a startup" or they can build one as a Indie Hacker project i guess?.
Personally I think Patreon or other product/services to fund a project is a good way, They could fund them through sponsorship/Patreon like what Django REST Framework or Martin Kleppmann and Daniel Roy Greenfeld who does that through their book sales.
Like personally if I know your 1 of the contributor for 1 of my favourite open source tech, i would purchase it because i want to support your work.
Patreons / GitHub Sponsorships are definitely a good start!
Book sales can also work, I guess not everyone is prone to writing though.
I think Filippo summarized it really well in this post, why going beyond sponsorships and incorporating might also be a good idea:
blog.filippo.io/professional-maint...
There are many paths to build open source sustainably.
To be fair i would prefer them to incoporate as a startup and prevent any legal problems that might hurt their reputations or cause them to get into trouble with their customers.
I see Open Source Startup (OSS) like GatsbyJS or Dev.to requires the founders to focus on business aspect while still mantaining their core focus of product development in their Open Source Product. Which really require a different blend of founders/co-founders that knows of open source.
Like Guy Kiyosaki says "you need two people for your startup a salesman and creator without that combination it becomes harder to build a startup" or they can build one as a Indie Hacker project i guess?.
Very well said, totally agree.