[gschier]

This is a conscious bet I'm making.

Yes, it's a good-faith license. The license doesn't even apply to the OSS version (only prebuilt binaries).

The bet is that super fans will pay for it in the early days and, as it gets adopted by larger companies, they will pay in order to comply with the legalities of commercial use. So far, it's working! The largest company so far is 34 seats, with a couple more in the pipe!

[throwing_away]

Having often thought this is how I would attempt to monetize if I built a developer tool, I'm glad to hear that it's working.

It makes good sense because companies actually have an absurd amount of liability to you if they violate your agreement.

[dylan604]

Without telemetry, how will you know that anyone at all is using your software let alone only within the agreement of any licensing terms?

[edoceo]

Excellent work! Looking forward your post about some milestone ARR boundary, the gory details of how you got there.

[gschier]

My runway reaches infinity around $10k MRR so I'll likely do a post around then. Currently 11% of the way there!

[stavros]

I was going to gripe about the price but $50/dev/year is actually pretty reasonable! Nice!

[rmnclmnt]

Thank you for your honest and detailed answer! Great to see it’s working so far and this allows you to build a true OSS product in the meantime, i really appreciate that (i think this is the biggest benefit of your licensing scheme)

[scrps]

I really like that, a scaling license!

I have a suggestion:

Under pricing for the hobby tier you could add as free or pay what you want. $50/yr isn't crazy but might get a few smaller donations if that was an avenue.

[gschier]

I currently direct these people to sponsor on GitHub