by pkhamre on 11/27/13, 1:15 PM with 4 comments
Do anyone recommend me to try to turn this into a profitable project instead of just a hobby code project? If yes, what would be a good approach?
[1]: https://github.com/pkhamre/wp-varnish [2]: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-varnish/
by kfullert on 11/27/13, 1:21 PM
1) Paid support/install/configuration assistance for users (ie they get priority support but the normal support still continues albeit at perhaps lower priority)
2) Paid consultancy (perhaps there's a certain feature users would like, where you're paid to develop but it gets added to the open-source version
3) Premium version (I'd suggest not removing any features already in the open-source version, but adding new features to the premium version first)
No idea what your uptake would be on any of those ideas but that's the most common ways of monetising something like that I can think of.
by relaxedricky on 11/27/13, 2:37 PM
Keep an open source "community" edition with all its current features, then start on an enterprise edition. Still updating the community versions core but keeping some features just for the enterpriser customers.
by sharemywin on 11/27/13, 3:12 PM