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
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.
❖ 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
❖ 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?