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...
3. It's hard really hard tl;dr:
4. Open Source since 2010 trivago Blog: endler.dev YouTube: hello-rust.show Matthias Endler
5. OSS Revenue Models My Open Source Journey Outline
6. Go for it!
8. 2010 2020
9. Number of Repositories
10. Stars
11. 0 225 450 675 900 2013 2016 2020 Followers
12. visualizevalue.com
14. Money earned: $0
16. It's hard really hard tl;dr:
17. •1. Sponsoring •2. Paid Learning Materials •3. Merchandise •4. Consulting •5. Enterprise services / plugins
18. •Individual Donations
19. Product Interest Audience
20. Product Interest Audience
21. Product Interest Audience Build Stars Followers Sponsors
22. 25k 1k 3 100% 4% 0.01% Build Stars Followers Sponsors
23. Followers Sponsors 1000 3 0.3% Percent 3421 Me Top Github (Median) 0 0% 5430 Top Github (Avg) 2.8 0.5%
25. •Sponsorware
26. Make public Sponsors threshold
27. github.com/mre-early-access
28. •Corporate sponsors
29. Revenue in 2019: 70 billion US dollars Revenue in 2019: 160 billion US dollars
30. Gudim Anton
31. https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/05/07/the-truth-behind-open-source-apps/
32. https://kenreitz.org/essays/the-reality-of-developer-burnout http://antirez.com/news/129
33. http://antirez.com/news/129
35. https://github.com/analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis
37. Jakub
40. Sponsors
42. https://github.com/sponsors/analysis-tools-dev Exposure Content creation
43. Start here •1. Sponsoring •2. Paid Learning Materials •3. Merchandise •4. Consulting •5. Enterprise services / plugins
44. It's hard really hard tl;dr:
45. Tips!
46. learning building marketing
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
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