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.

Transcript

1. money
   So you want to earn
   with open source...
   

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3. It's hard
   really hard
   tl;dr:
   

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4. Open Source since 2010
   trivago
   Blog: endler.dev
   YouTube: hello-rust.show
   Matthias Endler
   

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5. OSS Revenue Models
   My Open Source Journey
   Outline
   

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6. Go for it!
   

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8. 2010 2020
   

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9. Number of Repositories
   

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10. Stars
    

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11. 0
    225
    450
    675
    900
    2013 2016 2020
    Followers
    

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12. visualizevalue.com
    

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14. Money earned: $0
    

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16. It's hard
    really hard
    tl;dr:
    

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17. •1. Sponsoring
    •2. Paid Learning Materials
    •3. Merchandise
    •4. Consulting
    •5. Enterprise services / plugins
    

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18. •Individual Donations
    

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19. Product Interest Audience
    

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20. Product Interest Audience
    

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21. Product Interest Audience
    Build Stars Followers Sponsors
    

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22. 25k 1k 3
    100% 4% 0.01%
    Build Stars Followers Sponsors
    

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23. Followers Sponsors
    1000 3 0.3%
    Percent
    3421
    Me
    Top Github (Median) 0 0%
    5430
    Top Github (Avg) 2.8 0.5%
    

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25. •Sponsorware
    

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26. Make public
    Sponsors
    threshold
    

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27. github.com/mre-early-access
    

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28. •Corporate sponsors
    

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29. Revenue in 2019: 70 billion US dollars Revenue in 2019: 160 billion US dollars
    

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30. Gudim Anton
    

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31. https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/05/07/the-truth-behind-open-source-apps/
    

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32. https://kenreitz.org/essays/the-reality-of-developer-burnout
    http://antirez.com/news/129
    

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33. http://antirez.com/news/129
    

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35. https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis
    

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37. Jakub
    

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40. Sponsors
    

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42. https://github.com/sponsors/analysis-tools-dev
    Exposure Content creation
    

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43. Start here
    •1. Sponsoring
    •2. Paid Learning Materials
    •3. Merchandise
    •4. Consulting
    •5. Enterprise services / plugins
    

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44. It's hard
    really hard
    tl;dr:
    

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45. Tips!
    

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46. learning
    building
    marketing
    

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47. •1. Have fun
    •2. Build things you love
    •3. Find friendly people
    •4. Grow an audience
    •5. Be in it for the long run
    

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48. 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
    

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