We have been thinking about this for our product; we are definitely (and have this openly on our site) going to open source all under MIT or Apache (whatever we

We have been thinking about this for our product; we are definitely (and have this openly on our site) going to open source all under MIT or Apache (whatever we like by that time), but for now, but either of those, not AGPL or open-core or something like that), we find/found (not my first rodeo) it completely impossible to make money with that type of arrangement as a product (consultancy sure). Supabase had bucketloads of VC money, as do almost all 'big' open source projects. If you are bootstrapped, this is not going to pay the bills for quite a while especially on an ambitious / hard project. People only can work for free for so long and with closed code, a small team in constant contact etc you can move a lot faster by cutting the overhead needed for a successful OSS project. It would be interesting to hear a story like this from a project of similar size that has $0 funding, has been founded in the last 5 years, has a fulltime team >1 and exists for 3+ years and still would recommend this approach. How are they making ends meet? Things like Redis simply don't happen anymore. At least; I haven't seen any. Hell, even trivial projects, like langchain, get in 10s of millions of VC and those would be my candidates for actually being able to do it as a few-man-band while getting in money via different sources.