[cynicalsecurity]

Free advertising on Haker News. 10 bucks net profit without any grows is also profitable. Getting to the main page of HN was worth open sourcing what had no potential anyway.

This is my reasoning, I'm not the creator of this.

[winrid]

As someone that built a 20m ARR survey product... The only difference between this and something making millions is a sales team.

[testbf]

And millions in bots and fake reviews.

[winrid]

it wasn't needed in our case. Selling B2B didn't require online reviews of our product.

[lelanthran]

I think maybe you're being overly cynical (yes yes, I did see your username!)

Sometimes, large companies open-source a SaaS product because they expect to make more money from the free marketing (See yesterdays post about headline-driven development) even though their implementation remains closed.

We still give them news-space, don't we? Why should we act any differently for solo developers?

[ricardonunez]

Username checks out.