🚉 Open-source strategies - products and OSS

Open-source software is mostly developed by volunteers and they do their best to meet the needs of contributors, and in some cases if code is so good. Its makes the project a high quality software. A question about usability still remains, it might not address a large user base because it made by power developers for power users. Usability is another beast, there are many configuration knobs which is way more than a general user might need.

If you are building a product, remember a keypoint, Open-source software will be a platform providing a wide set of capabilities. You are building a product which will solve a narrow set of user requirements and solve them well. This will make an OSS platform strategy fuel products like no other, if the difference is not understood, you might end up muddling product and platform, resulting in neither.