Ask HN: How can you monetize your own open source project?

How can someone monetize their open source project or what are some ways to make money from the project that you build

5 comments

Add some enterprise / pro feature aside from the open source offering perhaps. Sidekiq and Passenger did this and are very successful

mraza0075 lat temu

Totally agree i think this can be doable but we just have to have enough customers for the product

Any ideas on pricing like how should we be pricing it

devinhn5 lat temu

Talk to people that already use it and find out where they had trouble then sell your expertise to fix the problem.

pestatije5 lat temu

Yes. Users normally adapt or integrate your code into their own solution; let them know you could help them.

mraza0075 lat temu

I see and it totally makes sense