dgarud

After stack overflow closes their jobs section, which site would you consider a replacement, both as employee and/or employer?

I put a lot of thought into a software which solves a real problem and could be licenced on a per machine basis. (Small company pays less than a bigger one - i.e. pay per use).

To go for a startup selling licenced copies, I would need an investor but I don't really know how much the product will sell. The investors like to see hockey stick graphs which I can't claim.

I know there are companies that created open source projects on github and then have businesses doing custom work around it, but I don't know if this will work for me. I feel the product itself provides value and I would like to make some revenue off it.

Now I am thinking this is a good fit for shareware - i.e distribute freely - let anyone who feels it is worth pay for it. I can distribute with source so if someone wants to modify sections they can do so.

Please let me know your thoughts.

What are the open source projects where you were impressed with the use of a design pattern to solve a design problem in code? Please list technology, framework, OS, any libraries used and what impressed you the most.

What were the things you did that helped and what do you feel you could have done better? Thanks for the answers!