Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
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#2What's your rationale behind this step?
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#3What's your rationale behind this step?
It's to tap into global collaboration for faster innovation, and ensure transparency and trust.
Thanks for bringing up the good question!
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#4Can anyone confirm if the legal advice here https://docs.heyform.net/license is correct? Seems slightly different to my own interpretation of the spirit of GPL.
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#5How did you think about the tradeoffs between closed-source profitable vs. open sourcing it? What do you see as your criteria for success on this move?
Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced
#6Can anyone confirm if the legal advice here https://docs.heyform.net/license is correct? Seems slightly different to my own interpretation of the spirit of GPL.
They would need to use the AGPL if they want folks that self-host to release their changes.
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#7do you consider this a marketing move?
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#8Considering that this is SaaS, are you sure GPL is sufficient here? Did you consider AGPL?
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#10Congrats on open sourcing your project!
I see that it relies on mongodb, at a first glance this seems a good fit for a forms oriented product - looks like using a document db for actually dealing with documents. How did it work out for you? Would you choose it again?