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You can get your financial freedom with open-source in 2025! šŸ¤‘

Nevo David on January 01, 2025

TL;DR launched Postiz open-source on September 1, and it is making $2,000 per month already šŸ’ŖšŸ» At the beginning of 2024, I started to work on a so...
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Salim Houari

Can I please ask maulybe a naive question. How do you monetise?
Thanks

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Bhat Aasim

Hey Nevo, this project looks fascinating! Iā€™d love to contribute, such an interesting idea with an amazing tech stack. Thanks for making it open source!

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Moataz Farid

And you just got another user šŸ˜šŸ˜‰

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Zender

Awesome!

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K Om Senapati

Great

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Nevo David

šŸ™šŸ»

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Raja Saqlan

šŸ“ž

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Rick Hartley

Will have a look šŸ‘

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Johny

Thank you for the valuable insights!

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kuete_roodolphe

Great

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L RodrĆ­guez

This is an awesome post, really interested and called my attention to do the same, and enter into the open source world. Only thing missing is "how do you make money with an open source product like yours?".

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Omotayo David

It's simple actually. He offers users the option of self-hosting or paying a small fee to use the app right away.

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aicrafter • Edited

Exactly... Promotion is good, but I missed the money making part too.

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DEV King

Damn, with $2K a month, I could quit my bloody 9-to-6 corporate job where I am forced to use stupid Windows and Eclipse.

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Sanjeev Sethi

But as much as i know in US even an sde intern gets more than that?

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Uchenna Kingsley • Edited

Haha. smile

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Saurabh Rai

Awesome! I hope this motivates indie developers to start something big. Knowing you, Nevo. Your work ethic is šŸ”„, and with the time, thinking, and experience you bring in, Postiz will surely be a top-notch tool.

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kelsey-d

Step 1: Acquire 10 years programming experience

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Adam

Or get good with Cursor in 1 year!

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Stanley Sathler

Great post, Nevo! Thanks! šŸ”„

Q - How to motivate the others to contribute in that case? Won't they feel reluctant do make free contributions to a paid tool that, in theory, gives money to someone else?

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Isaiah

Congrats, dude! You make it sound easy with this post but there must have been an enormous amount of work behind the scenes.
I'm curious about this:

My main channels were dev.to, Reddit, indiehackers.com, Hackernoon and Lemmy.

  • Is this in order of traffic?
  • Was promoting in Reddit hard for you? I know Redditors are so against product promotion. Even sending bad DMs.
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Mahmoud Housam

Thanks @nevodavid for this greate article that encourages me to ask for feedback for my first open-source (VizBlend) project. If it got your interest, kindy star it ā­

Check out this post on dev community.

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Anuroop Sirothia

Please help me understand that after making Postiz open source why did developers joined and contributed? I am really keen to understand the motivation. Why would developers contribute to Postiz open source for free?

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Jack Daniel

Someone will hate me for saying this but you could have used something like wix to slap out a basic site in a few hours and it would be getting the search authority you seek. And if it were a WP you can use ping lists to blow that ish up.

The best marketing is comments. This is how you market it. Find relevant conversations and mention it in the comments. Before you know it "everyone is taking about it" I'm the best for a reason. šŸ‘

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Louis Dupont

Really cool to see how it went!

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aakas

great šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

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Animesh Pathak

Awesome Nevo!

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Weerayut Teja

Nice and inspiring story, thank you

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Adam

Clearly you are very good at marketing.

Even the banner image here. How did you make that?

You mention an email list, how many subs?

Thanks

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Sanjay Kumar Sah

Why there is no free plan? šŸ¤”

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Blessed Ndoro

Free plan is self hosting

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maliknur28

inspiring!

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Trisha Guru

Great idea, if I need to learn developing from where to begin with sir, I want to leverage in this AI field. Plz guide.

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Rajesh Manikka

Thank you so much.