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This! realty_geek, do you know if any Rails dev houses took your project and used it to build sites for real estate clients for five- or six-figure contracts? A

This! realty_geek, do you know if any Rails dev houses took your project and used it to build sites for real estate clients for five- or six-figure contracts? And didn't pay you a penny? I'm sure that's happened quite a few times - I confess that I very rarely donate anything to the open-source projects I've used to make a living. May I suggest that you be the one landing the contracts? Find real estate companies in your local area that have awful web sites and reach out to them for a coffee. Show them what you've done and sell the fact that they could hire the guy who has coded a site with his own hands rather than some scrub who knows how to click things in the WordPress back end. Yes, it's icky sales work, but if making money is your goal here, you'll get much farther than what you're doing now.

realty_geek 9y ago
You are right, people could be using PropertyWebBuilder to earn good money without me knowing. I think I must have communicated wrongly because most comments seem to suggest that I am sad or begging for money. I know open source won't make me rich. I earned very good money for many years and saved a ton. I'm not feeling sorry for myself or wanting to squeeze every penny from this project. I would however like it to earn enough interest and money to keep it a sustainable long term project. Over the next few months I will do more to sell it directly to end users. I'm also hoping some smart developers will be motivated to help me improved the code, design etc.