httptoolkit-ui VS lemonade-stand

> Monetization via Paid Premium Version / Open Core

This point is interesting, because it assumes the only way to do premium is with a closed-source version, losing the open-source benefits.

Personally I've had good success (i.e. comfortably enough income as a solo bootstrapped project that I can work on open source full time) doing a freemium approach that's 100% open-source for http://httptoolkit.tech

Yes, anybody can fork the project and remove the payment checks (here: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-ui/blob/5cf0b10c6...) but it's a non-trivial hassle to fork everything and hook it all up, and means ongoing maintenance work to manage a fork forever, so at the price it's not really worth any serious professional's time (and I give out free licenses for everybody would contributes to the code anyway).

Works well, lets you stay 100% open source, which is good for everybody and encourages contributions, and you can still make enough money to fund development (never going to make anybody a billionaire, but that's not the point).

There are tons of options. https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

As project maintainers resort to a variety of fundraising methods, it's clear that the ecosystem is still yet to adopt a truly sustainable model attractive to those who not only build OSS, but those who use it too.

A handy guide to financial support for open source\ (21 comments)

Lemonade-stand - a great resource for r/opensource maintainers trying to /r/monetize their project by Nadia Asparouhova on @GitHub: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

There are a lot of resources about it , you can start with this.