Case Study: Give the tools out for free, sell the toolbelt. How to make money in open source by creating a solid developer experience and selling the infrastructure.

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  • There's a few ways that a developer can generate income for this like through sponsorships, contract work and installations, or by creating infrastructure around the framework and selling it. The latter has been used in companies like Odoo where they have a core open source product and a hosted premium one (called open core monetization). Although, this panned out a little differently.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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