Building a business on open-source applications
summary
Open-source ticketing and event platforms are turned into a sustainable company by combining pretix (AGPL + commercial license, plugin-based open core and hosted SaaS) and Venueless (BSL with timed Apache relicensing, hosted virtual events). Revenue splits show concrete results: about 75% from SaaS, 15% from support/add-ons, 10% from custom work, and the crew grows from a solo founder to 13 people. Specific tradeoffs include contributor decline, competitor reuse risk, and clear licensing-driven product choices.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Why opensource
- 5:35Business models
- 10:00Open source licensing
- 13:35WebOpec
- 15:27Pretix
- 18:11Venueless
- 20:06Do business models work
- 21:01What factors play in our favour
- 22:49Risks
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