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So You Want To Earn Money With Open Source

So You Want To Earn Money With Open Source

I earned 0 Euros from maintaining OSS software for years, and I thought that's
the way things are. I finally looked into ways to monetize my projects this year
and In this talk I want to share what I learned along the way. It didn't make
rich (yet!), but I built my first sustainable side-project with
analysis-tools.dev.

I'll talk about this and other projects and the mistakes I made on the road
towards sustainability.

Full transcript on my blog.

Matthias Endler

January 04, 2021
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  1. Followers Sponsors 1000 3 0.3% Percent 3421 Me Top Github

    (Median) 0 0% 5430 Top Github (Avg) 2.8 0.5%
  2. Start here •1. Sponsoring •2. Paid Learning Materials •3. Merchandise

    •4. Consulting •5. Enterprise services / plugins
  3. •1. Have fun •2. Build things you love •3. Find

    friendly people •4. Grow an audience •5. Be in it for the long run
  4. Home icon by Edward Boatman from the Noun Project Work

    icon by Weltenraser from the Noun Project youtube icon by shwepes from the Noun Project Thanks! github.com/mre @matthiasendler