I'm genuinely curious as to who would bid for the source code and what their motivations behind it would be. There isn't exclusive rights to the source code and the original owners of the source code even say that they are going to continue to work on it. So you start off with 9 other competitors at the exact same place as you as well as all the other competition in the market. Then add to it the competition that may come in from buying the code on gumroad.
The idea isn't really to push anyone to start a file-sharing website—it's not really a profitable endeavor. :)
The idea behind selling the source code is educational. There aren't many resources out there for folks who who've never built a web app before and want to see a complete one for reference.
As for Gumroad, it will go up for sale there soon, but the publicly available price will be 4x the winning bid amount, so if you want it, you're best off bidding. :)
Not many previously closed source, fully-commercial SaaS web apps have been completely open-sourced. If you'd like to debate what "not many" means, I suppose we could, but I think that's missing the point. I, for one, can't think of any.
When most startups shut down, they take all of their code with them. I'm kind of surprised that anyone's response to doing something to changing that status quo would be negative. I mean, I'm sure you'd like to have us just give it away for free, but why? Why would we do that?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadThe idea behind selling the source code is educational. There aren't many resources out there for folks who who've never built a web app before and want to see a complete one for reference.
As for Gumroad, it will go up for sale there soon, but the publicly available price will be 4x the winning bid amount, so if you want it, you're best off bidding. :)
"There aren't many resources out there for folks who who've never built a web app before and want to see a complete one for reference"
As there are completed web applications that people can look through.
Not many previously closed source, fully-commercial SaaS web apps have been completely open-sourced. If you'd like to debate what "not many" means, I suppose we could, but I think that's missing the point. I, for one, can't think of any.
When most startups shut down, they take all of their code with them. I'm kind of surprised that anyone's response to doing something to changing that status quo would be negative. I mean, I'm sure you'd like to have us just give it away for free, but why? Why would we do that?