How to Build an Open Source Business

[@haxzie_]

Thank you so much for this well detailed presentation. As someone who has been building open source softwares for a long time, it was extremely hard to build a business model around it. This video helped alot to understand building a business around open source softwares better.

[@maryamrashidi2329]

EXCELLENT video on open source business models, many thanks

[@buzzeins]

This is brilliant. Thank you!

[@YashRanadive]

Wow! @peterlevine .. This is the most information dense and on-target presentation I've ever seen on this topic.

[@priyanshnegi03]

Thanks, really helped me in starting my OS project!

[@petrlegkov4112]

It's a great video, but it somehow misses what open source is actually about. What's the value behind open source? How do different projects get funded outside of the venture funded open source world? And most importantly, when is it deadly to add venture to open source projects? Or to rephrase it: does this video apply only to projects that aim to raise money from the beginning? Besides those IMHO open questions, highly insightful!

[@istvanmeszaros4112]

Very insightful, thank you!

[@lanceze9779]

Thank you for sharing this information. However the download link seems to be down; can you post it somewhere else?

[@cirtey29]

Thanks. Well explained.

[@davidmalawey]

Tried to download the slides but the link is broken. Can you share a new link?😃

[@lewissheridan]

Appreciate this contribution!

[@scottyb3b7]

Excellent and practical

[@paulholsters7932]

Good presentation

[@andersjurisoo7699]

Thank you! Love the graps

[@ashishmaurya3113]

I have a really silly question but bear with me, If open source code is available on GitHub so say if I fork the codebase and host it live isn't it kinda weird I meant how open source companies do not worry about their code base being exposed and all?

[@giseghese9433]

I came from the Silicon Valley Girl and loved her suggestion!

[@m3s69ll]

in kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWq2e3SGrbpomNU 22:05, did Peter mean to say GitLab instead of GitHub? The latter is not OSS.

[@insaneminer]

How do i get people to know about the project. I'm finding it hard to get people to even look at it.

[@anasalbarghouthy2485]

I found that finding the right subreddit can be extremely helpful. Try a bunch of subreddits, and find the best one by posting regularly original content about your project (tutorial and blog posts) and measuring engagement. You can measure interest/engagement by providing people with some kind of CTA (Call To Action), like "Join Our Discord Server" for example and measuring the conversion rate; alongside regular social engagement and looking for feedback in the comments. Forget about Product Hunt and Hacker News. Look for small active communities, and by "small" I don't mean "less people", what I mean is communities in which you don't have to compete with many people for attention at a given time. This means "Timing" is important, because some communities can be highly competitive at certain times and less competitive at other times. You also don't want to look for "low competition" communities that has low engagement or are basically dead, you want a community that at a certain time of the day/week has low competition and high engagement. For me it was /r/GraphQL.

[@AbrahamSamma]

It's easier to join and thrive inside an existing community than creating one from thin air. That's how you do it.

[@insaneminer]

@@AbrahamSamma so once I’m in a community then could I start Sharing my project?

[@RikzB]

@@insaneminer hey i’m learning MERN Stack and am looking for some open source projects to contribute to.... If you have any idea, let’s discuss

[@Artem-jm9xd]

Thank you

[@Eltonlin1998]

10:49: Why - in practice - cloud providers can't just decide to kill open-source startups by hosting the same code

[@rira12621]

It's what they do. Hence the recent license changes by MongoDB, Elastic and Grafana.

[@cherubin7th]

Open core and sass both show open source is not about freedom like free software.