I recently launched Postiz, an open-source social media scheduling tool. After four months, it's making $2.1k per month! Thanks to open-source soft...
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I'm extremely skeptical. Not to be a debbie downer, but I really don't think it's as easy to do this as your article makes it out to be.
Nothing is ever easy in life, but it is easier using open-source.
This is such an inspiring! Open-source provides an amazing platform for developers to showcase their skills, collaborate with others, and i guess its even build a sustainable businesses.
Would love to hear more about strategies to monetize open-source projects effectively. Are you thinking about sponsorships, SaaS models, or paid consulting?
Anyone else in the community made this transition? Share your stories!(PS: Don't forget to share😉)
In Postiz I monetize mostly from the cloud, but if I wanted to run a larger team, I could push big enterprises into a self hosting plan with support.
I like the idea of Postiz, but I don't think large companies really want a social media spam bot* :)
*🤓 erm actually it is a timed shedshuled shoshial media API
Hi, wondering about the monetisation part?
Also, what do you think about open source but with a non commercial & no derivatives license?
In Postiz, I monetize primarily from the cloud, but if I wanted to run a larger team, I could push big enterprises into a self-hosting plan with support.
"Also, what do you think about open source but with a noncommercial & no derivatives license?" do you mean MIT / APACHE2 / AGPL3?
All the licenses you mentioned are open source by definition. There is no restrictions such as non-commercial or no derivatives. A license applying those restrictions is not technically speaking "Open source" even if the source code is made available. The pro is that it is easier to monetize. The con is that open source purists will not value your software.
Now this is the theory but I was wondering to which extent making the source code available but not strictly speaking "Open source" would slow down the growth of an app's community in practice
Indeed, a non-commercial clause license is by definition a non open-source license. The advantage of such licenses (like the creative commons nc-nd, for example) is that they are still instruments of copyright law alone, unlike many classic proprietary licenses and "EULAs". This means you can use them as is rather than having to hire an expensive lawyer to draft a user agreement and get the contract law language correct.
If you have commercial users and no community interest or contribution whatsoever anyway, I think the creative commons approach is both simplest and least costly.
Thanks for the advice ☺️
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very detailed, thank you do posting!
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Adding on to @cedric_bonjour , open source programs cannot be monetized. All funds from it are supposed to be used on the site. That's the whole purpose of open-source! Free! Using open-source donations and stuff for your own benefit is illegal 😱😱😱. I hope this is just a misunderstanding on my part and you aren't doing this 😅!
Okay. So you are just using open sourced programs to give people incentives to buy your paid products? Awesome marketing am I right? 😆
While this is a great post, I think you are just using this to advertise your paid services, notably Gitroom. 😱
A web dev with 3 open source projects that each took a week to make be writing a whole paragraph criticizing somebody of marketing ;)
You are right; pure open-source is free, and Postiz is 100% free (AGPL 3)
There are non-open source licenses that people put in, but it is not considered to be "open-source."
Postiz benefits people who want to use the cloud without taking care of the rest :)
Gitroom is mostly to help people; there are no real monetization things there yet; if something, this post is trying to convey to people to Postiz open-source.
Ahh, I see! Well, I'm not the police, so I'll stop annoying you now. Thanks for your professionalism on the reply! I would have expected an angry Karen to yell at me for disturbing them :)
Where is the $2k coming from? Just wondering! I want money lol
From the cloud registration of Postiz :)