Downsides:
- People may just clone your code, host it themselves, and stop paying
- If it's a popular project, you will have to triage a bunch of issues people file in the GitHub, review PRs from the public, and so on. It's a lot of effort for very little or zero reward in some cases
However, I think it makes sense for certain types of products:
- Analytics
- Security
- Privacy
Basically any situation where you need to establish significant trust with the buyer where they might be skeptical of your work or suspect that you're stealing their data. I'm likely going to do this soon with #simpleotp to build more trust.
Downsides:
- People may just clone your code, host it themselves, and stop paying
- If it's a popular project, you will have to triage a bunch of issues people file in the GitHub, review PRs from the public, and so on. It's a lot of effort for very little or zero reward in some cases
However, I think it makes sense for certain types of products:
- Analytics
- Security
- Privacy
Basically any situation where you need to establish significant trust with the buyer where they might be skeptical of your work or suspect that you're stealing their data. I'm likely going to do this soon with
#simpleotp to build more trust.