The Open Source Gateway To Product Success Prosper Otemuyiwa | CMS Africa Summit 2017 

Who Am I? ❖ Software Developer ❖ Consultant at Auth0 & Cloudinary ❖ Open Sourcerer ❖ Self-Acclaimed Developer Evangelist ❖ Jollof Rice Ambassador ❖ Google Developer Expert @unicodeveloper 

❖ The Products that we use today are strongly rooted in Open Source. ❖ Open Source runs the world ❖ The vast majority of software we run today is built upon pre-existing open-sourced technologies. 

What will the world look like without Open Source? Challenge 2 ❖ Linux ❖ PHP ❖ JavaScript ❖ Ruby ❖ Python Imagine a world without: 

Open Source Inspiration Challenge 2 ❖ Linux was inspired by Open Source Minix ❖ Hadoop was inspired by Lucene and Nutch ❖ Laravel is built on top of PHP and was inspired by Rails ❖ Rails is built on top of Ruby ❖ Wordpress is built on top of PHP ❖ Magento is built on top of PHP ❖ Joomla is built on top of PHP 

Open Source As A Gateway…. Build As Open Source ❖ Build your product as an open source tool. ❖ Then build a specialized paid version of the open source tool. ❖ Build products around the open source tool to help consumers Build on Open Source ❖ Leverage open source to build your product. ❖ This is actually very common. 99% of products depend on open source for survival. Build A Community ❖ Create a community around your product. ❖ Write Articles ❖ Create demos randomly and share ❖ Have a Dev.Rel team. 

Implementation 

Build As Open Source Challenge 2 ❖ Find a Problem ❖ Solve it by building an Open Source Solution ❖ Get people to love the open source product ❖ Ask people about the pain points involved in using the product ❖ Will people pay for a feature that seamlessly solve their issues? ❖ Build paid products around the open source solution 

Open Source Laravel Framework Paid Laravel Forge Open Source Laravel Socialite Paid Laravel Envoyer Open Source Laravel Cashier Case Study: Laravel Laravel => https://github.com/laravel/laravel Laravel Forge => forge.laravel.com Laravel Envoyer => https://envoyer.io 

Open Source Magento eCommerce Framework Paid Magento Enterprise Edition Paid Magento Enterprise Cloud Edition Paid Magento Business Intelligence Paid Magento Commerce Order Management Case Study: Magento Magento => https://magento.com 

Open Source Wordpress Paid polldaddy.com Paid Vaultpress Paid Akismet Paid VIP Hosting Case Study: Automattic Magento => https://magento.com 

Open Source freeCodeCamp Open Source Mail for good Paid freeCodeCamp Sticker Pack Paid freeCodeCamp Hoodies & Tees Paid Magento Commerce Order Management Case Study: Freecodecamp.com Get Sticker Pack, Hoodies & Tees here => https://www.freecodecamp.com/shop 

Build On Open Source Challenge 2 ❖ Find a Problem ❖ Solve it by building a solution using technology ❖ Explore several open source solutions to build your product. ARE THERE REALLY ANY PRODUCTS OUT THERE THAT DO NOT USE ANY OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY/SOLUTION? 

Yes, My Product!!! I BUILT EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH Really? Really? Really? 

...but the language you used to build the Product ….IS OPEN SOURCE! 

Build A Community Challenge 2 ❖ Find a Problem ❖ Solve it by building a solution using technology ❖ Build a community around that product. 

Case Study: Auth0 Challenge 2 At Auth0, we have built a community around Identity Management. HOW? 

Case Study: Auth0 Challenge 2 1. We maintain Open Source Projects that deal with Authentication & IDM ❖ Passport - https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport ❖ Password Sheriff - https://github.com/auth0/password-sheriff/ ❖ Angular 2 JWT - https://github.com/auth0/angular2-jwt ❖ Go JWT Middleware - https://github.com/auth0/go-jwt-middleware ❖ Jsonwebtoken - https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken ❖ AngularJS JWT- https://github.com/auth0/angular-jwt ❖ Nginx JWT - https://github.com/auth0/nginx-jwt ❖ Express JWT - https://github.com/auth0/express-jwt ❖ Angular Storage - https://github.com/auth0/angular-storage ❖ Socketio JWT - https://github.com/auth0/socketio-jwt 

Case Study: Auth0 Challenge 2 2. We write tons of articles and documentation on IDM, Security & Technologies ❖ Auth0 Blog - (Gold resource) - https://auth0.com/blog ❖ Guest posts on https://scotch.io ❖ Guest posts on https://laravel-news.com ❖ JWT Handbook https://auth0.com/e-books/jwt-handbook ❖ Migrating from Angular 1 to Angular 2 - https://auth0.com/e-books/migrating-to-angular2 

Case Study: Auth0 Challenge 2 3. We speak at developer events and Tech. Conferences We have a Developer Evangelism Team! 

Case Study: Auth0 Challenge 2 They all drive conversion rates!!! 

Thank You!