Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova
How do you commercialize open-source products? While at NDC Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Victoria Melnikova about her work with Evil Martians, helping startups make open-source products and make a living at the same time. Victoria talks about various revenue strategies, but always with a mind to providing a "forever free" tier to be responsible to the open source community. Charging for pro-features, limiting the number of uses before a paid tier... there are several approaches to revenue that users can work with, as long as you are open and honest about how things work!
Guests:
Victoria Melnikova
Alongside Evil Martians Victoria Melnikova connects with technical leaders, particularly in developer productivity space, and empowers growth-stage startups on their journeys to success. Victoria is the author and creator of Dev Propulsion Labs, a podcast about building successful developer tools.
Links:
- Bing AI Bug Bounty https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-bing-ai-bug-bounty?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
- Dev Propulsion Labs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAgBW0XUpyOUMf8EblYokBiRVOwMnA71H
- Evil Martians https://evilmartians.com/
- ImageProxy https://imgproxy.net/
- Builder.io https://www.builder.io/
- Sidekiq https://sidekiq.org/
- PostCSS https://postcss.org/
- AnyCable https://anycable.io/
- Discourse https://www.discourse.org/
- Cal https://cal.com/
- Vercel https://vercel.com/
- Harmony Accessible UI Color Palette https://www.figma.com/community/file/1287828769207775946/harmony-accessible-ui-color-palette