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如何靠你的开源项目付房租
How to pay your rent with your open source project
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Plausible 团队分享他们如何靠开源项目养活自己：从副业起步、公开构建、靠内容营销和社区支持逐步实现全职化。文章讨论了开源项目变现的多种路径与现实困难。
为什么经久不衰：开源可持续性是长期难题，作者用亲身经历给出可复制的经验，两次登上首页说明其参考价值经得起时间检验。
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开源作者多为纯工程师，缺乏商业能力，从爱好转向谋生极其困难
大多数写开源的人是为了乐趣、做副项目或解决某个问题，而不是为了钱。问题出现在软件流行之后：大量 bug 报告、功能请求、邮件和噪音涌来，而作者还有全职工作，时间有限。他本职收入不错，开源要替代这份收入还有很长的路，所以从普通工作转向靠开源谋生非常难。更关键的是，这些人是纯工程师，不懂也不关心商业、营销、把软件做成产品——就像对一个砌砖工说：'你会盖楼，为什么不自己盖一栋卖掉付房租？'事情比那复杂得多。
Milank查看英文原文
Most of the people writing OSS do it for fun/side project/to solve a problem, not for the money. Problems come if that peace of software gets popular, they get a lot of bug reports, improvement suggestions/requests, emails, noise in general. And a person who wrote the software has a full time job, so the time available for OSS is limited. That person is probably well paid in it's current job, so the OSS has a long way to go in order to replace that income, meaning it's very hard to transfer from a regular job to maintaining and living from your OSS. And the most important thing - those people are pure engineers, that don't know/are not interested in business, marketing, making a product out of their software, etc.. practically anything besides coding. It's like advising a mason: "Hey man, you know how to build a building, why don't you build one and sell it? You can pay the rent with it." It's a bit more complicated than that. But nice article overall, good starting point for someone who wants to find out more on the topic.
被大企业白嫖的开源维护者寻求'只让大公司付费'的模式
我几天前也在 HN 问过这个问题：我开源了一个库，被一些大型企业大量使用并从中赚钱。维护它占用了我大量本该陪伴家人的时间，我希望得到补偿。即使中小企业也在用，我只想让最大的企业付费。那么如何既保持开源，又让大企业付费？有没有这样做的开源应用案例？
victor106查看英文原文
I asked this on HN a few days back. I open sourced a library and its become heavily used by some of the largest enterprises who make lot of money using that library as one of many. It takes a lot of my time to keep it updated so I would like to be compensated some how for the time it takes me away from my family Even though its used by small and medium businesses I would like only the largest businesses to pay for it. So how do I keep it open source as well as have the largest business pay for it? Any examples of open sourced applications doing the same?
开源变现的最大障碍是几乎没人愿意贡献，成功率比进大厂还低
遗憾的是文章忽略了开源最大的问题：很少有人或公司愿意以任何方式贡献，无论是写代码还是资金支持。即使是大型热门开源项目，多数也是自掏腰包，靠人们投入自己的资源和业余时间来支撑。文章说的都成立，但做一个能付得起房租的开源项目，难度不亚于挤进 FAANG——甚至可能更容易进 FAANG。
axegon_查看英文原文
Sadly the article neglects the single biggest problem in open source: very few people, or companies for that matter, are actively willing to contribute in any way, whether it be contributing with code or financially supporting a project. Even big and popular open source projects are most often self-funded and it's people dedicating their own resources and spare time to support them. All of the things in the article are more than valid but creating an open source project that can potentially pay your rent is arguably just as hard as adding another letter to FAANG. As a matter of fact the letter might very well be an easier task.
双许可（非商业/商业或 GPL/商业许可）是被忽视的有效变现策略
文章漏掉了一个重要的变现策略：双许可。将源码明确授权为仅限非商业使用，然后收费提供商业使用许可（通常附带支持服务）。如果相关领域有大量业余爱好者、而他们在日常工作里也做同样的事，我认为这招很有效。更开源一点的版本是：源码用 GPL，收费提供商业友好许可的产品。
endorphine查看英文原文
I've started a hobby/passion project a few months ago, and I'm constantly dreaming of quitting my day job to start working on it full-time (as opposed to doing it at midnight and getting sleep-deprived). Hard to give up a well-paying job when you have a family and financial goals ahead, but perhaps it's doable with donations? Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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