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From Tweet to Launch 🚀 – My Open Source Journey

Marc Seitz on September 04, 2023

What you will find in this article? Are you intrigued about taking your idea from a mere tweet to launching it as an open-source project...
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Artak Avetyan

I love stories like this, @mfts 👍
Minimum a vote at Product Hunt and a star at GitHub from me.
Cheers 🍻

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Marc Seitz

Much appreciated Artak 🙌

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Artak Avetyan

You are welcome, Marc. I even created an account at Product Hunt to vote 😁
Good luck!

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Giovanni Mazzuoccolo

I have a question: Is an open-source SaaS product worth more than a disappointed wife? 😅

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Marc Seitz

definitely no 🥵 she is contributing to the open-source project as well :)

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Mamun Ahmed

@mfts amazing job brother!

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Marc Seitz

Thanks Mamun 🔥

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Salah Eddine Lalami

Hi @mfts congratulations 🎉.
I have questions how long it take you to build this open source projet ?

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Marc Seitz

The MVP took just a weekend (Friday evening to Sunday night).

The launched product yesterday add around 7 more weekends :)

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Nevo David

Great journey Mark!

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Marc Seitz

Thanks Nevo 🙌

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Iuliia Shnai

So excited that we launched Papermark today!

@mfts amazing job

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Marc Seitz

Thanks for supporting Iuliia 🙌

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William M. Tsikata

Amazing work on Papermark 👏

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Marc Seitz

Thanks William. Keep the contributions coming on GitHub :)