If you want to get an idea for how difficult a career choice open source is: I'm currently working to monetize my open source project with https://baasil.io/ h

If you want to get an idea for how difficult a career choice open source is: I'm currently working to monetize my open source project with https://baasil.io/ https://baasil.io/ (with some cofounders) - The surprising thing I learned is that investors do NOT care AT ALL that your OSS project has almost 20k downloads per month and that you spent 3+ years of your life on it and are fully dedicated to it. Employers care, other developers care, but to an investor, it means nothing. I applied to a startup incubator in Sydney several months ago; I showed them all my project stats (it's probably one of the most popular open source frameworks to come out of Australia). I hussled hard; I even managed to get tickets to a few investor conferences and events and, each time, I would talk to every person in the room. I ended up securing a coffee meeting with an investor (after talking to him at two different events; 3 if you count the fact that I had actually talked to the guy on the phone 2 years before about what I was planning to do; so he knew I was serious) and he recommended that I apply to an incubator in which he was a director. I applied; but I didn't even end up getting into the first round of interviews (they just didn't understand the product or the market)! They selected a bunch of other startups (some of which didn't even have a proof of concept to show). Maybe the experience would have been different in another country.