[Comevius]

If your market expects you to, then by all means, and for Linux you pretty much have to, in which case you have to figure out a business model that works with that.

But there is a whole lot more to customer development than a public repository. Just because you have built it it doesn't mean that they will come. In fact they never will, because a day is 24 hours, and people only have so much attention to give. Practically none for you. You have to be a grand wizard of marketing and behavioral science to start making money. The trick is to build something niche, something that can take over a smaller, but interconnected network of people. It's how diseases spread too.

> Should I just improve my software engineering skills

They don't matter much. A business is not a programming contest, it's a brand or person people trust to take care of their pain for them. Identifying the pain, learning how to communicate the solution, building a brand around it and creating connections is 90% of the battle.