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Ask HN: Portfolio or Profit

Hi, I currently developing a webapp (personal budgeting) that originally use for myself. I have two ways to further utilize this app: 1. Open source it and make it as my portfolio and benefit others. 2. SaaS that for profit. Note: I am from Asia and having fulltime job, not sure doing both is a good advice. Any input/advice from HN? Edit: Added note.

benologist 12y ago
My first real startup started off as a hosted service and then when it shut down I tidied up some loose ends and re-launched it as a self-hosted open source platform (http://playtomic.org http://playtomic.org). Doing that has taught me people largely prefer hosted services with no responsibilities even though I streamlined the setup down to just a few minutes of work. My next startup will be parallel opensource + hosted so it can go either way.
- PortfolioProfit 12y ago
  That is good idea to do both, but not sure how employer feel about their employee do other stuff (of course, at our own free time)?
  - benologist 12y ago
    That's a completely separate issue that you need to explore - some places claim ownership of anything their employees do even at home at night, in some places that's not even legal.