How I Made $300k From an Open-Source Side Project Using Dual Licensing
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The author shares their experience of making $300K from an open-source side project using dual licensing, sparking discussion on the viability and ethics of this monetization strategy.
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Later, when I quit my full time job to build my own startup, I needed something for survival. The first project I picked up again was lightGallery. It was already quite popular back then, so I decided to rewrite it from scratch and implement dual licensing.
So, basically the trust and adoption were built over years when it was free. The monetization came much later.