So You Want To Earn Money With Open Source

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

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It's hard really hard tl;dr:

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

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OSS Revenue Models My Open Source Journey Outline

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Go for it!

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2010 2020

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Number of Repositories

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Stars

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0 225 450 675 900 2013 2016 2020 Followers

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visualizevalue.com

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Money earned: $0

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It's hard really hard tl;dr:

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

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•Individual Donations

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Product Interest Audience

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Product Interest Audience

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Product Interest Audience Build Stars Followers Sponsors

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

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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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•Sponsorware

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Make public Sponsors threshold

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github.com/mre-early-access

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•Corporate sponsors

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

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Gudim Anton

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

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

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http://antirez.com/news/129

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

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Jakub

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

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

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It's hard really hard tl;dr:

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Tips!

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learning building marketing

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•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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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