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It's an interesting idea, but a few points: * Your documentation states "Recompyle will not work for every project right now. It's a work in progress." Maybe a

It's an interesting idea, but a few points: * Your documentation states "Recompyle will not work for every project right now. It's a work in progress." Maybe an open/closed beta phase is appropriate right now instead of charging $33 for something that may not even work? * I may be missing some functionality, but $33/year/user seems steep for something that I think I can emulate by just setting breakpoints normally and manually resuming process execution in Chrome Debugger. * Your site seems to imply that Open Source projects cannot be sustainable businesses, but we see this all the time (Supabase, Aseprite, Miniflux). I would remove that from your site anyway because it's not exactly a selling point.

lolinder 3y ago
> Your site seems to imply that Open Source projects cannot be sustainable businesses, but we see this all the time (Supabase, Aseprite, Miniflux). I would remove that from your site anyway because it's not exactly a selling point. Notably, 2/3 of your examples are server-side applications where the product is hosting, and Aseprite isn't open source, it's source-available. In general, businesses around open source tend to either be selling hosting or support. For a client-side application, hosting isn't an option, and I also doubt that selling support packages will work for something small like developer tooling—the examples I can think of of client-side sustainable FOSS businesses are all Linux distros. Do you have any other examples of client-side FOSS businesses that I'm missing? Edit: one strategy I missed is open core, like JetBrains, but since that's a hybrid model I think that's actually evidence in favor of OP's claim that FOSS is hard to sustain.
- jraph 3y ago
  > Do you have any other examples of client-side FOSS businesses that I'm missing? Just thought about Linphone. (in addition to those I mentioned in my other comments) https://linphone.org/ https://linphone.org/
- toastercat 3y ago
  My point was to counter this idea that open-source === unprofitable, but another example is Mindustry https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry.
  - lolinder 3y ago
    Oh, that's an interesting one! Available on Steam but also open source.

lolinder 3y ago

> Your site seems to imply that Open Source projects cannot be sustainable businesses, but we see this all the time (Supabase, Aseprite, Miniflux). I would remove that from your site anyway because it's not exactly a selling point. Notably, 2/3 of your examples are server-side applications where the product is hosting, and Aseprite isn't open source, it's source-available. In general, businesses around open source tend to either be selling hosting or support. For a client-side application, hosting isn't an option, and I also doubt that selling support packages will work for something small like developer tooling—the examples I can think of of client-side sustainable FOSS businesses are all Linux distros. Do you have any other examples of client-side FOSS businesses that I'm missing? Edit: one strategy I missed is open core, like JetBrains, but since that's a hybrid model I think that's actually evidence in favor of OP's claim that FOSS is hard to sustain.

jraph 3y ago
> Do you have any other examples of client-side FOSS businesses that I'm missing? Just thought about Linphone. (in addition to those I mentioned in my other comments) https://linphone.org/ https://linphone.org/
toastercat 3y ago
My point was to counter this idea that open-source === unprofitable, but another example is Mindustry https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry.
- lolinder 3y ago
  Oh, that's an interesting one! Available on Steam but also open source.