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I like what the React Training guys did with react-router: use the organic traffic from their library fuel their training business. Treat the FOSS project as y

I like what the React Training guys did with react-router: use the organic traffic from their library fuel their training business. Treat the FOSS project as your lead funnel, then sell a service to those leads. Maybe the service is training, maybe it's hosting the project (e.g Wordpress), perhaps it’s just leveraging it to get a lucrative job offer. You need to sell a service though on top of the project itself.

nisa 5y ago
Please not. I understand that this kind of works and provides income for a lot of people but especially in the Wordpress world every plugin is just one huge piece of upsell ads with limited functionality. I don't blame the developers who do this but it's not a solution.
- dageshi 5y ago
  I can't think of a better solution, can you? With a lot of WP plugins, the alternative to buying the plugin is writing it yourself.
- hluska 5y ago
  I wonder if there are more tasteful ways to do it.