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HN is your best bet to gain visibility open sourcing it. Your product looks great, I would choose it over odoo and the other open source options that look like software from the 2000s. But the most important thing is, by reading your current mood with the project, open sourcing it will give your integrators the possibility of continuing using it when you totally stop caring about it.
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if I were you I'd seek to sell it instead of open-source it. "pivoting to adding value with LLMs on top" is very expensive from a COGS standpoint; and will complicate your business economics, not simplify them. You don't seem to have a problem where open-source is the answer; the problem you seem to have is you built a business and a business model you weren't intending to build; and you don't solve that by open-sour…
I agree, but I don't see any point in selling it. I'd instead post the code and use it in all my other businesses without depending on the buyer. Besides, there is still a market for Odoo and Zoho integrators, and I think we can try to gather some of these people around our product.
Your product's website is very 'feature' oriented, and not very 'Pain/Dream/Fix' formatted. https://sharpen.page/jtbd/copywriting/pain-dream-fix-and-jtb...
Make sure to AGPL it so you can still relicense and sell it later to someone (or more than one someone) who thinks they can make money with it.
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I agree, but I don't see any point in selling it. I'd instead post the code and use it in all my other businesses without depending on the buyer. Besides, there is still a market for Odoo and Zoho integrators, and I think we can try to gather some of these people around our product.
After having looked over your product's website (ozma.io), it feels like the issue may be more ensuring you're being seen by your target customer and solving a problem they have that entices them to use your product. Your product's website is very 'feature' oriented, and not very 'Pain/Dream/Fix' formatted. https://sharpen.page/jtbd/copywriting/pain-dream-fix-and-jtb...
One good case study is Maybe Finance. It was a dead project. They open sourced it. And it went viral. And they raised $1.5m within another few weeks. The virality was on GitHub stars and Twitter.
I run a channel about open source that may give you ideas of what other COSS projects are doing: https://youtube.com/elie2222
My COSS is called Inbox Zero: https://getinboxzero.com.
Hey, One good case study is Maybe Finance. It was a dead project. They open sourced it. And it went viral. And they raised $1.5m within another few weeks. The virality was on GitHub stars and Twitter. I run a channel about open source that may give you ideas of what other COSS projects are doing: https://youtube.com/elie2222 My COSS is called Inbox Zero: https://getinboxzero.com .
What are the pros and cons? Aren't you afraid that it makes the SaaS offering less enticing, especially to highly technical people (which seems like might be a big chunk of your potential users)?
Make sure to AGPL it so you can still relicense and sell it later to someone (or more than one someone) who thinks they can make money with it.
I'm afraid that AGPL is not an actual open-source launch test. As a developer, I wouldn't contribute to such a product.
1. Is your target customer a software developer? It seems like your customer would be a executive, perhaps at a smaller business. You want to get that person's attention. I think open-sourcing is more likely to get developer attention.
2. There are lots of other marketing strategies you could try (content-based marketing, going to tradeshows, cold calling, etc).
3. If you have existing customers, I think you really need to work with them on in-depth case studies that explain why they benefited from choosing your solution. You should also see if you can market to other, similar customers.
4. "customizable by any developer" - That developer should be you. This I have personal experience with. We initially delivered a product and left it to the customer to configure. Later, we discovered that customizing the product for the customer delivered better results, better relationships, and allowed us to learn about our own product and our customers.
Anyway, I would do a lot of sales/marketing brainstorming before I open sourced. It seems you see it as a marketing strategy, but I think you should consider other avenues first. Good luck!
Hey, One good case study is Maybe Finance. It was a dead project. They open sourced it. And it went viral. And they raised $1.5m within another few weeks. The virality was on GitHub stars and Twitter. I run a channel about open source that may give you ideas of what other COSS projects are doing: https://youtube.com/elie2222 My COSS is called Inbox Zero: https://getinboxzero.com .
Controller of site safety doesn't exactly fit the bill..