When I say sell, I'm thinking "managed hosting and support" -- not the software itself. That seems like a pretty decent approach to me.
Definitely the main goal is to provide something better to people trying to do manufacturing. I'm not hoping to get rich, but also wouldn't mind making it a full-time thing if there were enough demand for new features/support/etc.
I guess I'd be very happy if there was someone who was much more ambitious than me, who saw an opportunity to make a lot of money by doing sales on the product. It'd be great to work together with that person in a support-type role. And honestly, I wouldn't mind if they wanted to try it alone.
What would hurt though would be to do a lot of work to get it into a state where it was "the best" in some way, and a big player started selling a cheaper fork.
Would you be willing to share your approach? I'd love to see it. Disclosure: I'm in the early stages of an open-source ERP: https://github.com/barbinbrad/carbon
It’s an open source ERP system. I’ve been plugging away for about 10 months, but ERP systems are soooo big.
Really I just wanted to build graph-based, stochastic production routing, but there are so many pre-requisites to good scheduling/routing. Like the people, and the parts in stock, and when the required parts will arrive. So I’m building all that first.
It’s also been pretty enjoyable to learn Remix and Supabase in the process. I can’t say enough good about them!