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With my open source project, I'm offering remote consulting. I also offer specialized infrastructure management (to host projects built on top of it) for larg
by jondubois 9y ago
With my open source project, I'm offering remote consulting. I also offer specialized infrastructure management (to host projects built on top of it) for larger companies.
I was able to find enough small companies/customers to turn it into a full time contracting job but I have struggled to find large corporate customers.
My goal is to get at least one big contract from a corporate customer - That would allow me to bring other maintainers on board.
Finding big paying corporate users can be very important for open source projects because it gives it a credibility boost and helps convince other big companies to use your product/service in the future. Getting big companies on board is a difficult chicken and egg problem.
It would be great if big companies could make an effort to use solutions from small open source maintainers instead of massive already successful proprietary as-a-service alternatives.
If there was a platform to help Open Source teams connect with corporate clients, that would be extremely useful.