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Why I'm not open sourcing my Android voice agent

DEV Community·22Gstudios·26 days ago
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I built LetItDo , a voice agent for Android that finishes real tasks. WhatsApp messages, Spotify, grocery orders, the boring 47-tap routines. Every other day someone asks: are you going to open source it? The honest answer is no. Open source is not free distribution The most common reason indie devs open source: "I will get more users by going open source." It is rarely true. Open source attracts contributors and users who want a free tool. It does not magically attract people who pay. Linear, Notion, Superhuman, Cal.com all started closed. Cal.com later open sourced AFTER it had paying customers, as a marketing move with infrastructure already in place. If your product has zero distribution, open sourcing it gives you zero contributors and zero users with extra steps.…

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