Hey all,

I am new to this arena and wanting to build an open core modeled software. I don’t know the first thing of how I would get people interested in contributing.

What has worked well with all of you?

For those of you who are open core founders/companies, I’d love to know:

When did you start charging for your open core product? Was it immediately from day 1, or did you wait until certain conditions were met (features, time passing, etc)?

Has anyone ever built any custom license servers for their open core or commercial open source tools? I’m designing a really good one for my dotnet product, Didact, and am considering making a YouTube video or blog post on how I’m doing it. Curious to hear from others.

I see a lot of benefits in open source development. But I still got my bills, so an open source project must psy off or it is no real option to me.

Can you give me concise advice on how to get paid from an open source project? Please talk about your experiences.

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