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As the maintainer of several very popular open source projects in the infra-structure space, I was initially impressed by hearing the team had gotten 2M USD in
by alexellisuk 6y ago
As the maintainer of several very popular open source projects in the infra-structure space, I was initially impressed by hearing the team had gotten 2M USD in revenue over three months, but then read they'd already brought in 2M USD in the previous two years, totalling 4M USD over ~2.5 years.
If I could figure out a value-stream like these two gents, then my OSS work would be on another level. This isn't your classic "Indie Hackers SaaS" or viral eBook stuff.
Hats off to you. I'll be the first to buy your eBook :-)
- mmckelvy 6y agoI think the key leap they took to generate revenue was to build out a fully-baked, batteries-included product based on their open source library. Sure you could build out the components in Tailwind UI yourself, but a lot of people will pay the $250 to have a solution that "just works".
- z3t4 6y agoIts pretty easy. You sell something to your users. And it doesn't even have to be relevant to your product. The hardest part in selling is to acquire users. But as you already have users you can now upsell and cross-sell.