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by ComputerGuru 1244 days ago
Congrats on the launch.

For anyone looking for an open source community project without business aspirations in a much simpler and easier to audit format, have a look at SecureStore. It's encrypted and versioned secrets stored alongside your code in your git repo. Cross-language, cross-platform, with native libraries for different languages/frameworks. Useable by teams big and small, up until the point you want a standalone, full-fledged secrets management server and are fine with adding that heavy network dependency to all your services.

https://neosmart.net/blog/tag/securestore/
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vmatsiiako 1244 days ago
Infisical's goal is to provide the main functionality to the community for free - only enterprise-level features will be paid.

Frankly speaking, I don't believe in open-source projects without paid components (and this can be in different ways) - there have been so many examples of rug pulls for full FOSS just because maintainers are tired of running the project and there is no money to support it.

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bityard 1244 days ago
> Frankly speaking, I don't believe in open-source projects without paid components

Can you clarify your scope here? I mean, there are thousands of of active projects out there maintained by their creators or communities and are not monetized. They contribute to open source because they get enjoyment from working on the project, participating in a community around it, or derive meaning from putting something nifty into the world.

Making money in relation to open source projects is not a new idea, but the notion that every good idea needs to be monetized certainly is pretty recent.

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vmatsiiako 1244 days ago
Yes, I think I phrased it in a wrong way. Sorry for misunderstanding.

What I mean is that there is a point until which the open-source project is not popular enough to be fully supported by the community. If this point takes too long to reach, and there is no way to financially support the project - the project might go bust or stop being maintained. We’ve seen it happen with quite a few even very popular projects.

Which is why personally I think the best way to build a sustainable open source project that is helpful for the community is to provide the most needed functionality for free and find a way to monetize the enterprise-level features.

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8n4vidtmkvmk 1244 days ago
The idea sounds good, but the Github is very buried.
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ComputerGuru 1244 days ago
Thanks. I didn’t know which repo to link to since there is one for C# and one for rust.
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