Building Commercial Open Source Software: Part 2— Roadmap & Developer Adoption | by Ethan Batraski | Ethan Batraski’s Writings | Medium

In our time investing and supporting open source companies, we’ve learned several lessons about project & community growth, balancing roadmap and priorities, go-to-market strategy, considering various deployment models, and more. In the spirit of open source, we wanted to share these learnings, organized into a series of posts that we’ll be publishing every week — enjoy! When developers struggle with deploying an open-source project into their complex internal environments or infrastructures, they build homegrown solutions instead. Solving for key areas turns developer engagement into commercial customers. This means it needs to be as easy and seamless as possible to set up and deploy in order to start demonstrating value. Whether it’s providing Kubernetes operators, specific integrations, CLIs, or UIs, make it dead easy to deploy. Open source is designed for the community, by the community, and by definition wasn’t designed to work out of the box in the enterprise. Comprehensive testi

In our time investing and supporting open source companies, we’ve learned several lessons about project & community growth, balancing roadmap and priorities, go-to-market strategy, considering various deployment models, and more. In the spirit of open source, we wanted to share these learnings, organized into a series of posts that we’ll be publishing every week — enjoy! When developers struggle with deploying an open-source project into their complex internal environments or infrastructures, they build homegrown solutions instead. Solving for key areas turns developer engagement into commerci