Reached 600+ stars on Github
by Davide PacilioIn less than two weeks our open-source landing page template has reached over 600+ stars on Github. Here are the numbers in detail:
🌟 636 Stars
🙌 149 Git clones
🕺 7,461 Unique users
👀 15,327 Overall views
We got the majority of this traction from a successful post on Hacker News, and we learned the importance of open-source projects as a marketing strategy to bring qualified leads to our paid products - in this case, new customers to Cruip.com.
We will probably release new open-source resources in the upcoming weeks, and in the meantime, have a look at the free template here, or download it on Github :)
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Hi Davide,
that's a really great achievement. Congratulations.
May I ask why you've chosen GPL as an open-source license? If I'm not missing the point it means that every adjustment of the theme needs to be openly published as well. This could be a blocker for many potential users.
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Hi Dennis, thank you :)
Sure: we applied the same license we use for our free resources on Cruip.com - so there is not a specific reason behind this choice. Honestly, I don't think you need to openly publish any changes to the template, but I'm going to double-check this matter just to be sure that I'm not missing anything. Thank you for pointing it out anyway :)-
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Hi Davide,
maybe this Stack Overflow Article: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/47032/can-i-use-gpl-software-in-a-commercial-application provides you some insights
This part is the most important one:
If you do distribute YOUR APPLICATION, and you used something GPL as part of your application (even if only linking at run-time to a library) - and even if you do not charge money - and even if you do not change that GPL s/w in any way - then you MUST make the source of YOUR APPLICATION available.
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Hey Dennis, thank you for sharing, I'm going to look into it right now!
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That's a great start, especially getting that many stars so quickly!
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Amazing job guys! Keep pushing 💪
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Thanks, Andrea 🙌
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