I for one have found myself happily spending hundreds of dollars trying to build things I struggled to do in the past. And I am happy to keep things open source because I know the code is no longer the moat.
As an example, I started this almost 10 years ago:
Which makes me all the more disappointed that Birmingham (close to me) doesn't have a better startup ecosystem.
It is an ideal place to benefit from London (little over an hour away) without the crazy prices.
Anyone here based around the midlands, say hello / "alright bab"....
BTW Simon, I was super happy when I heard on Theo's podcast that he will be encouraging you to monetise your work more. I'm super appreciative of your work and I'm pretty convinced that the more you profit from it, the better the universe will be!!!
AI will get you a lot of the way with this. Claude Code allowed me to bring my almost dead open source real estate website builder back to life - and it was much easier than I had expected.
I for one have found myself happily spending hundreds of dollars trying to build things I struggled to do in the past. And I am happy to keep things open source because I know the code is no longer the moat.
As an example, I started this almost 10 years ago:
https://github.com/RealEstateWebTools/property_web_scraper
I the past 4 days I have added more functionality to it that I ever did in all the time before.
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