Comment by dust3317

Excellent article. You certainly managed to synthesize the startup experience with Open-source (two very challenging sectors). Do you just gravitate towards mathematically wicked problems? :)

Like you experienced, a good product without a team and without revenue is simply not enough, no matter how good the idea. I have unfortunately been one of the 90% of startup failures to experience that brutal reality.

My next project with a few others is to make open source coding & development profitable. We want to keep advancing open source while also helping others to get paid for their efforts. We are still technically in stealth mode, but plan to be launching soon. Our website will be codebounty.ai (we don't yet have it fully built out yet). With that being said, if you are interested to participate as a sponsor, maintainer, or contributor we would love to hear from you about what you would like to see in this program: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdmlxJHIqOlwr1Nw3q0... .

We would like to see it become a place where new coders can learn, develop skills, and get mentored by others. We would also like to have it as a way for others to have an income while looking for full time employment (rather than driving for uber). Heck, it could even become a recruiting tool for companies.

If you have ideas, I would love to hear from you so that we can help to make more amazing open source projecets like Timefold a more common reality!