Pay the bills working on open-source

Open-Source Changed The Way Software Is Developed

Open-source projects such as Linux, Apache, MySQL and others have reduced the barriers of time and costs needed to develop high quality products or services.

Yet, generating the scale and traction those projects have is very hard and rarely happens. If we can support open-source on a more consistent basis, We could have many more such projects and improve the software development process .

Only 7% of open-source projects are actively maintained.

What Do MySQL, Magento and Redhat All Have In Common?

Those are all open-source projects who successfully integrated a commercial element in order to prosper as a business and offer a high-quality product that with a strong foundation, otherwise known as Commercial Open-Source.

Commercial open-source is complimentary to free open-source in the same way that commercial businesses compliment not-for-profits. Both serve a specific sector and operate under a specific ideology, and together balance the market and are symbiotic to each other.

Paying the bills with open-source is becoming a reality

If you contribute to a open-source project while working at full-time somewhere else, or have mature code you'd love to share but can't find the time or motivation, commercial open-source might provide the support structure you need to work on your own projects:

• Have an expertise in a specific type of software product or service? repackage your old, battle-tested code as an open-source project.
• Replace freelancing and 9-5 jobs with revenue generated from commercial licenses and paid support.
• Get paid to work and support your own projects.

If This Sounds Interesting, You Have Come To The Right Place

We want to drive the open-source industry forwards. We built a platform called Binpress to support monetization and sustainability for open-source projects.

We handle the parts of building an open-source business most developers try to avoid:

• We handle licensing through a simplified license generator. Attach any combination of free and commercial open-source licenses to your project.
• We handle distribution, marketing, advertising and sales. Those skills are not your forte? we got you covered.
• We provide a professionally designed project page, that is optimized to breed trust and increase the likelihood of people using your project.
• We handle transactions and payments for commercial licensing and paid support. Membership and project listing are completely free - We take a commission on top of transactions to support the platform we provide.
• Listed projects are curated to meet industry standards (see below). Passing the review process gives your project (and you by relation) proof and validation.
• We provide a feedback and ticketing system for your published projects.

Top publishers on Binpress make silicon-valley comparable salaries ( > $100k$ annually) selling commercial licenses.

Not every project gets in - we curate submissions to make sure they comply with coding standards and best practices, while solving a real-world problem. Our goal is to create an inventory of the best solutions for every common need in software development. Please go over the publishing guidelines before submitting a component for review.

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If you have or can produce quality code, we want to motivate you to share it. You'll open yourself a new revenue channel, and other developers can benefit from your code to accelerate their projects and reduce their costs. Help open-source become a viable business.

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