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Hi, I've collected many monetization approaches in the "Awesome OSS Monetization" list on Github - maybe it helps you to find alternatives to donations / sponsorships: https://gith…

I don't know of an example but you should talk to a license lawyer and create a new license. Basically it's similar to "normal" Dual-licenses that say the code is GPL but you can b…

There are many ways to make a project open-source and still monetize on it. I've collected several approaches here: https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization Your case so…

Views of a German VC on the DevTools / B2D startup ecosystem.

I think the project has to have the funding already via donations or sponsoring - they state they can employ people "If your project has a sufficient amount of funding".

Hello, folks. I'm Joerg, the creator of PayDevs. I tackled the problem of underfunded open-source software libraries and build PayDevs to create a sustainable Open-Source ecosystem…

> As for the other submission, I didn't find the slightest indication that the submitter did anything wrong. If you posted your URL to another site, perhaps they saw it there and t…

> All of your posts with that account were about one thing, which happens to be the same thing your company is selling. That's using questions as a promotional device, not asking q…

Thanks for the feedback - that explains the first part, although I'm not sure why asking questions every few days on a topic is promotion or spamming (other accounts post several l…

Thanks for the tip. But even then "somebody else got lucky" would be a very very big coincidence - the project is roughly 3 months old and wasn't mentioned recently. That someone d…

The problem is not that someone postet the link - the problem is that the original link/post was hidden and exactly 1 hour later someone else postet it.

Is it possible that other accounts steal submitted links or posts? I just had this experience with my paydevs account: * On 2022-10-29T12:43:45 I postet https://news.ycombinator.co…

The results of the survey „State of OSS Monetization 2022" are ready! You can find the article on here: https://dev.to/joergrech/state-of-oss-monetization-2022-surv... #monetize #o…

That might be right for side-project in the beginning but what happens when they grow and thousands or even millions use them? There might come a point when you have too much work …