Making money from open source

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  • Tailwind CSS

    A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

    Adam Wathan found that using utility CSS classes and CSS post-processing helped him be a lot more productive in building user interfaces quickly. He found himself copying and pasting a bunch of boilerplate code between new projects to facilitate this. After a while, he decided to put it together into a project, which became Tailwind CSS.

  • yyx990803

    I think things are changing and it gives me cause for optimism to see more indie developers finding ways to monetize open source-first project without compromising the integrity of the project. I'm not just talking about cases where people managed to get funding to sustain a project long-term, like Evan You for Vue. I'm talking about being able to sell something related to the project.

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  • dracula-theme

    🧛🏻‍♂️ One theme. All platforms.

    The Dracula UI theme was created by Zeno Rocha as an opensource project when he was sick in hospital in 2013. It became a popular theme over the years. In late 2019, he decided to try to find a way to monetize the project when he saw how high the traffic to the draculatheme website was.

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