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How does one start a project like this and get paid? What are the revenue sources for the team? It's a great product, and the fact that it's open source is amaz

• sferoze 12y ago
  "The company plans to monetize the product by selling enterprise support and services." - [1] [1] - http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/andreessen-horowitz-keeps-eating-the-software-world-with-11-2-million-investment-in-javascript-framework-company-meteor/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/25/andreessen-horowitz-keeps-e...
• mmcclellan 12y ago
  The wired article, currently at HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522381 is interesting with regards to your questions.
• cjbarber 12y ago
  Step number one: Create an awesome framework that people want to use (Meteor started out as a travel guide site, I believe, and other YC batchmates wanted to use their web framework) Step number two: Keep building the web framework Step number three: Raise money to keep building that framework, with a partner who believes for the long term Step number four: Keep being awesome, and become the tool that a ton of devs want to use Step number five: Monetize with your own enterprise support and hosting
  • polarix 12y ago
    "I think you should be more explicit here in step 3" http://i.imgur.com/uvulagb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uvulagb.jpg