Working on https://www.shareback.com , team of 2. Been working on it for a few years, trying different ideas. We are trying to build something that we'd be happy to use by ourselves so it's been an interesting journey of self-discovery, research and coding. Also my partner in crime is non-technical and sometimes I kind of forget that people might use software in very different way to how, for example, I would do.
Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)
Also read recently that Stack Overflow business traffic is down over 50% after chat gpt release. Doesn't seem that any of the upset people think about destiny of Stack Overflow itself... which is a little sad.
Once upon a time I used to live in libraries to make any kind of progress on certain problems. Then Google arrived and my library visits reduced drastically. Yet libraries still stand. And I still head there whenever I need some peace and quite. Something like that will happen with StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Quora,Reddit and even HN.
I would back this one up as well. The code I generate in chat gpt is rather "dumb" (mostly react components, nestjs modules, etc) and in this case I trust myself to test and use it.
Depends what you want to do with it. My experience is only second hand but it seems that it's hard to commercialise open source. Two basic commercialisation strategies would be 1) providing premium support 2) hosting saas of your product. If it is a side project - than open sourcing might give you extra motivation to keep working on it.
From personal experience - I had a couple of open source repositories for javascript components with 3+k stars and it was impossible to monetize and was taking a lot of time and energy to maintain (ultimately giving me depression and I had to abandon those).
3+k stars is amazing. How long it took you to achieve this?
From my side. I have raise a small amount of money however wanted to see if what other people think about open sourcing and made their decision to do it
At the time it organically grew in a year or two, i've added my projects to the "awesome x" lists (like this one https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-react) but thats pretty much it. Overall I think it was a great experience to learn from but I wish I didn't spend so much time on it.
Outside of that I am also building a gym up for myself which I could use without glasses (all apps I tried have tiny buttons or controls that I cant see in the gym)