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

[Liyas Thomas]

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]

Would love to read this article!

[Liyas Thomas]

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