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263 points 1ilit | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | source

One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs.

In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take this project in.

All of this was an accident. But now I feel like I'm missing out on not using this success. I have been thinking of monetization options, but not sure if I wanna go down that route. I like the idea of it being free and available for everyone but also can't help but think of everything that could be done if committed full-time or even had a small team. I keep telling myself(and others) i'll do something if i meet a co-founder, but doubt and fear of blowing this up keeps back.

How would you proceed?

1. 999900000999 ◴[] No.43628648[source]
Looks very very cool!

Think about enterprise features you can charge for, and see what your community thinks.

If 100 people per month can pay 50$, that's 5k which is very nice for a side project!

For myself, I absolutely would love this as a Django plugin!

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2. 1ilit ◴[] No.43631593[source]
>If 100 people per month can pay 50$, that's 5k which is very nice for a side project!

sounds too good to be true xd

>For myself, I absolutely would love this as a Django plugin!

after migrations, will be adding orms. or some plug in system for anyone to add whatever they want. don't know how but would be a fun feature to work on