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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by sevagh »

motoxpro wrote: post #43

What should I be using shell history for? I've never wanted to go back in my history but obviously people are getting a lot of value from it.

Not to be dramatic but atuin is life-changing. I can resume my working context from any project, no matter how far in the past (e.g. what docker or cmake or make commands I run). I don't need a personal wiki of cli tricks like an "ffmpeg cheatsheet" or whatever, I just access my own personal ffmpeg history.

Oh, also, I use tmux to split my terminal and do separate things in each one, so I like that atuin consolidates all the histories from my separate panes.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by walteweiss »

xialvjun wrote: post #97

I'm going to quit my job to relax. And my relax is to build some open source things.

That’s how I approach open source in the first place. And the part that others can help you along your way, while you allow them to use your code as well.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by debevv »

chaosprint wrote: post #85

I quited my job as well to work on https://glicol.org I have a lot of feelings, but I don't have a blog so far. I feel that universities should alloc some of their funding to many of these open source projects and open source community should be better managed rather than donation. As for me, my plan is to start my own company and work on hardware .

This is awesome

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by pjmlp »

bad_user wrote: post #69

This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part of the commons, but without being maintained by taxes. In general, people just want free stuff, companies rarely pay for support, and SaaS providers will steal your business if they can…

Yes, just yesterday the author of ImageSharp was complaining on Twitter that from 80 million NuGet downloads, there is hardly anyone paying.

This on a ecosystem that grew on Windows developer culture, where paying for developer tools is quite common.

Let alone in other comunities, quite hard indeed.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by anticorporate »

bad_user wrote: post #69

This is the dream for many of us, but I hope she comes up with a good business model that doesn't rely on the goodwill of people (e.g., open core) because FOSS is terrible for earning money. The reason is that FOSS is essentially part of the commons, but without being maintained by taxes. In general, people just want free stuff, companies rarely pay for support, and SaaS providers will steal your business if they can…

How to pay for the open source commons is far from a solved problem, but I'm glad individuals are trying to make it work for themselves anyway.

I wish we wouldn't act like producing software and making gobs of money are inextricably linked. Yes, we absolutely need to find a way to fund people who are building critical infrastructure. But sometimes, "I quit my job to work on open source" can be more akin to "I quit my job to hike the Appalachian Trail." I wish tech had a lot fewer people who were here for the money.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by teddyh »

This person has gone from having a solid business model (having a job) to having at best a very vague one (“I hope I can focus on adding new premium hosted features for advanced users, and begin to support business usage.”).

You know how this sounds like, to me? “I quit my job to play with and walk my dog full time. I am hoping this will give me time to develop skills to eventually earn some money by maybe walking other people’s dogs, or maybe doing public performances with my dog.”

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