Ask HN: How can you monetize your own open source project?

[mraza007]

How can someone monetize their open source project or what are some ways to make money from the project that you build

[soulchild37]

Add some enterprise / pro feature aside from the open source offering perhaps. Sidekiq and Passenger did this and are very successful

[mraza007 → soulchild37]

Totally agree i think this can be doable but we just have to have enough customers for the product

Any ideas on pricing like how should we be pricing it

[devinhn]

Talk to people that already use it and find out where they had trouble then sell your expertise to fix the problem.

[pestatije → devinhn]

Yes. Users normally adapt or integrate your code into their own solution; let them know you could help them.

[mraza007 → devinhn]

I see and it totally makes sense