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Celebrating 10,000+ followers 🎉 - Thank you DEV: #AMA 🌼

Liyas Thomas on April 01, 2020

Hey friends 👋 Yes, this happened. Even though I've joined DEV on Aug 7, 2018, I’ve only been writing on DEV for a total of maybe 9.5 months. I’ve ...

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Ben Halpern • Apr 1 '20

What have you learned about open source since launching Postwoman?

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

Hi Ben,
Here's some of the things I realized lately regarding open source:

single/small team of developers will have hard time maintaining the project without proper monetization plan.
little things (readme, wiki, support, timely releases etc..) matter a lot.
donation based projects will struggle to find maintenance cost.
open source is a very idiotic business plan without a serious long term plan.
most non-passion projects wont get maintained in the long run.
long story short, don't write OSS for money. either have a full time job and do OSS on the side or make oss your full-time job.

Last week Postwoman crossed $500+ in purely donations 🎉

There's lot more to convey, I'll prolly write a post on this in upcoming weeks.

AmberJ • Apr 11 '20

Would love to read this article!

Liyas Thomas • Apr 11 '20

🌱🌍💚

Dragodzs • Apr 1 '20

Congratulations !! how to become full-stack dev from a beginner ?

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

Start by making / copying and editing small projects. Follow tutorials and contribute to open source projects. Repos like github.com/danistefanovic/build-yo... helped me a lot.

One of the most misunderstood word in tech is "Full-stack". Be sure what you really want. This Dev post will be a start: dev.to/ajascha/becoming-a-full-sta...

Dragodzs • Apr 1 '20

thank you ♥

Emma Goto 🍙 • Apr 1 '20

Congrats on the 10k! It's been super inspiring to see all the cool ideas and things you've created - crazy to see Postwoman approaching 20k stars already 🎉

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

Thank you for all the support 🙌✨

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

How to add this in markdown

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

Add what?

🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳 • Apr 1 '20

Check in message because i have image

Binyamin Green • Apr 2 '20 • Edited

What type of articles do you most like seeing on DEV? Which do you least like seeing?

Liyas Thomas • Apr 2 '20

I like new tutorials, pro-tips, articles on devs both professional and personal life, success and failure stories etc.

I don't like repeated and similar tutorials (I wish there's a "duplicate of" button like stackoverflow on DEV)

Joseph Odunsi • Apr 1 '20

I'm a beginner. I find it hard to code my ideas. What can I do?
Thank You.

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

There are a 100+ ways to turn your idea into a product. If you find difficulties in coding you can go with no-code solutions. "No code" have gained quite a traction over the past few months and will be staying for a while. The current state of No code allows you to create a full-stack application within minutes with little or no technical knowledge.

I strongly recommend this.

Sdu • Apr 1 '20

I stan so much 😭✨ ✨ ✨ ✨

Mustafa Anas • Apr 1 '20 • Edited

You're the only writer I truely feel clicking the unicorn for.

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

Thank you ❤️
I literally don't have any idea what that "🦄" icon really mean 😄

mayank joshi • Apr 2 '20

10,000 is a great achievement.

I just want to congratulate you.

P.S. postwoman.io is an amazing thing you built.

Liyas Thomas • Apr 2 '20

I admire the open source community and especially my team + contributors from around the world 💯✌️

Swastik Baranwal • Apr 1 '20

Wow, Congratulations for 10k followers! 😮👏 Postwoman is really a big project that I have seen in dev in front of my eyes. It's really an achievement and you deserve it!

Liyas Thomas • Apr 1 '20

Thank you for the encouragement. I appreciate the whole PW team + contributors ❤️