Comment by nnurmanov
2 years ago
Here is a similar Thin-Crust Open Core model https://reactflow.dev/blog/asking-for-money-for-open-source/. But I hear CH and understand their move. I think OSS Sponsorship has failed; it does not generate enough money to pay a team of top engineers. The best move would have been to implement better paid support model and allow more users to pay for support. Currently CH charges immense amount for their support, so only large corporations could afford.
But if they had a cheaper support model, the large corporations would also pay less, and they'd make even less money overall. Not to mention: support engineers are expensive, and researching tickets take a lot of time.
Not sure, you can have more customers but fixed number of issues. I am researching into it. You may crowdsource issue solving and have revenue sharing enabled.