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I can sympathise with this on so many levels having dozens of large companies using OpenFaaS as part of their product or internally and not paying a dollar in s
by alexellisuk 6y ago
I can sympathise with this on so many levels having dozens of large companies using OpenFaaS as part of their product or internally and not paying a dollar in sponsorships or for custom development.
I wrote up my experiences last year and the options for building OSS projects in terms of funding.
https://blog.alexellis.io/the-5-pressures-of-leadership/ https://blog.alexellis.io/the-5-pressures-of-leadership/
Since writing that I think that building an indie company is possible, even funding it with a micro-SaaS as seems to be the trend.
The core lesson here is: if you want to have people pay, then make them. Either hold features back, create a managed version, try to sell them support (good luck), or create a product based-upon your project which is not free.
You can hear a little about how that's going for me here ->
https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/116-independent-open-source/ https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/116-independent-open-s...