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How to make money with open source projects?

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Bishwas Bhandari

Posted on Nov 14

• Originally published at webmatrices.com

How to make money with open source projects?

"Actually, I am thinking that if we can use other open-source projects and software to make money. Is there any way we can use other's open-source code, projects or software to make money with it? I am not talking about getting paid for my own open-source project, I am talking about using others code and projects, and is it legal?", One of the members in webmatrices asked, and I replied to him with the below answer.

There are multiple awesome ways to make money with open source projects. Believe me, I have earned almost $2110 with the help of other open-source projects. And it's 100% legal. You've asked absolutely an awesome question, that'll make me happy after answering it. So, these are the ways to make money with open source projects...


How to make money with open source projects?

  1. Search others open-source web app, customize it a little, make it alive on the web and start monetization in it: I have created 3 web apps with other's open-source codes, and attached ads on them, I guess, I am making nice revenue with it. It sounds simple as a piece of cake, and guess what? It is simple and easy to do, but what you require is your marketing strength.
  2. Customize other's open-source library, add some more features to it and create a payable API with it
  3. Search for a script that can do a specific task and sell a service based on that script. For instance, there's a python script that can convert normal images to oil paint and cartoon images, then you can sell the service of converting images to oil paint or cartoon images. Also, you can make a gig or a service that can create apps o webapps for converting those images. Additionally, you can also attach ...

Believe me the last one is the most practical and the best way to do it.


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