This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Nevo David
I recently launched Postiz, an open-source social media scheduling tool. After four months, it's making $2.1k per month! Thanks to open-source software in one of the most competitive markets, you can do the same.
\ Here is how.
\
Find an Idea 💡
You don't have to have an original idea; you can take something already existing and open-source it (of course, make it good).
\ Why? Because once you have open-sourced it, you turn to a new audience that was never served before - Developers and companies that want to self-host your product (primarily because of privacy.)
\ I prefer to find big markets. For example, Postiz is a social media scheduling tool. It's one of the most saturated markets, meaning many people and underserved audiences are looking for it.
\ You also get tremendous credibility by showing all your code and get more credibility by getting stars.
Market It 🏪
Every product needs marketing; you can imagine from this post that I have some sense of it (Squid game picture + title); attracting more people is essential to get the initial visibility.
\ Open source gets some superpowers because it allows you to promote it in channels usually unavailable in typical startups.
\ You can find a lot of content about it on my website Gitroom.
\ In short:
- Post your repository every time you have a new version on Reddit /r/selfhosted
- If you have an AI startup, post it on /r/LocalLLaMA
- Post it in Lemmy's self-hosted community
- Post it on DEV.to/HackerNoon/Medium/Hashnode every week
- Post it on Hackernews: "Show HN: product name"
- Post it on LinkedIn/X as much as you can. Use Postiz for that 😉
\ If you do it often, you might be trending on GitHub, increasing your visibility by 10x.
\ Then, use your audience to post it on Product Hunt and get upvotes from the community members. Postiz finished 1st of the day/week/month.
\
Collect Feedback 💭
Using Discord and GitHub issues, I am collecting tons of feedback on what to implement and what not.
\ With over 800k downloads from Docker, tons of people are always playing with it and giving feedback.
\ When you implement feedback, people trust you more, and you learn faster about your product.
\
Just Do It ✔
Stop looking for excuses. Just write some code - the nice thing about open-source is that you don't even have to start by making the main website - build the open-source!
\ And of course! Help me out if you can ❤️
\ I'm happy to get a star to produce more features for the open-source!
https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app/
This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Nevo David
Nevo David | Sciencx (2025-01-09T21:45:36+00:00) 4 Months, $2.1k Per Month – All Open-Source Here’s How. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/01/09/4-months-2-1k-per-month-all-open-source-heres-how/
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