This looks great, but 90% of the actual content is behind a $40 subscription though. Maybe an option if I don't find anything else, thank you!

Could you please share a bit more on your business and how you got started?

I build, host, manage custom software for mid sized businesses.

I got started by following YC startup school videos.

The first one I did was creating an app for a high society maid service in the UK.

> I build, host, manage custom software for mid sized businesses.

Is this more of a consultancy?

No I just build and sell custom software.

How many employees do you have, or is it all yourself?

Does Canada fall within REMOTE?

At least sometimes, yes.

LMAO

congrats!

congrats! 1. are your projects open source? 2. have you written about your experience working on these projects somewhere e.g. a blog post?

Thanks, Yes some of them are open source on GitHub(mddanishyusuf) and I write sometimes on my personal website mohddanish.me

How do you decide on whether you should open source an app? What impact do you think this has on your revenue/profits/clone-ability?

Ah I did notice you encrypt/hide pro features. Still curious to hear your thoughts!

I usually open source free apps, that I don't think I'll ever be able to sell because "who else could have the same problem as me?"

If it turns out that people have a need and want to pay for Pro features, I try my best to keep the source available for the free part of the app, and only encrypt the code that constitutes the paid features.

That happened with Lunar, and it seems to start happening with Clop as well.

I have no idea if it did impact my profits at all, but it did help other people to start competing with me. The only competitors to Lunar (MonitorControl and DisplayBuddy) started by using Lunar's code [1] for controlling monitors on Apple Silicon [2], as Lunar was the first app to get that feature.

Competition is still good though, as long as it's not break-neck competition. I learned how to make Lunar simpler in terms of menubar UI from MonitorControl, and got some ideas on how to implement Custom Presets from testing DisplayBuddy.

[1] https://github.com/alin23/Lunar/blob/master/Lunar/DDC/DDC.c#...

[2] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/

thanks for sharing!

Just wanted to say this is amazing!

Does Datadog hire remotely in Canada?

Yep!

Could I please email you my info?