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Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?

87 points Brysonbw | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
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OutOfHere ◴[03 Apr 25 01:06 UTC] No.43563607[source]▶
Offer it as a commercial hosted service that you build on top of it. You can charge per use or per time period.
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1. lobsterthief ◴[03 Apr 25 01:12 UTC] No.43563636[source]▶
Great suggestion. And decline the inevitable decision to sacrifice or hinder open-source functionality to bolster your cloud ambitions.

You can look at Gatsby for a lesson here. They prioritized their team building the cloud offering and prioritized Gatsby Cloud for features that everyone was asking for like incremental builds, allowing Next to gain a foothold.

Then they sold to Netlify which has fully killed it. Will never forgive Netlify for that.