132: Funding Open-Source Projects

Hey everyone! Today we have a guest co-host for a special duo episode! We are joined by Adam from the CoRecursive Podcast to talk about how open-source projects can survive (and even thrive) financially.

Show Notes

00:00:15 Introduction

00:01:24 Gaming setups

00:12:25 News

• 00:12:27 I was wrong, CRDTs are the future
• 00:17:18 How we lost 54k Github stars
• 00:21:10 DALL-E
•  00:25:45 Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time

00:35:11: Sponsor

00:36:22 Book of the Show

• 00:36:38 Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast
• 00:37:24 The Laundry Files

00:40:35 Tool of the Show

• 00:40:39 Zapier
• 00:42:21 Earthly

00:46:46 Funding open-source projects

01:19:44 How to get funding for open-source projects

01:22:47 Farewells

 

 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Media:

• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2017)
• Class Action Park (2020)
• Indie Boardgame Designers Podcast: https://indieboardgamedesigners.com/
• GitHub Stars Won’t Pay Your Rent: https://medium.com/@kitze/github-stars-wont-pay-your-rent-8b348e12baed

News:

• I Was Wrong, CRDTs Are The Future: https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-are-the-future/
• How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
• DALL-E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
• Inside the Longest Atlassian Outage of All Time: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian?s=r

Books:

• Indie Board Game Designers Podcast
• The Laundry Files: https://amzn.to/3kdWWQg

Tools:

• Zapier: https://zapier.com/
• N8n: https://n8n.io/
• Earthly: https://earthly.dev/

Adam Gordon Bell:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamgordonbell
• Website: https://adamgordonbell.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgordonbell/
• CoRecursive: https://corecursive.com/

 

 

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