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Build it for yourself
- SlyShy 17y agoNot new advice, but it's worth being reminded about. I think programmers actually follow this principle quite a bit. It's just that once they have written a nice tool, they release it as open source software. For a lot of people, I think the message needs to be, "built it for yourself, and try to sell it too".
- joshowens 17y agoSlyShy, Great point! There is a fine line between open source and profitable apps, I just made the call the other day to open source something instead of making a paid app.
- dpritchett 17y agoWhy not sell your newly open sourced app? Lots of companies do it. If not the app you can certainly sell services around it.
- stralep 17y agoWould it be profitable to have advertising in open-source program? Of course, there would be checkbox to turn them off (or whatever). No recompilation needed.