Zhephree

I’ve always been a big fan of open source. It’s how I’ve learned how to do most of what I do. I’m also a fan of getting some income from my app sales. I’ve struggled to find a balance between the two.

While I know open sourcing doesn’t always negatively affect profits of an app, I’m not sure I want to risk it.

So, I’m not positive if apps like incredible! or Wooden Rows will ever be fully open source, but I will open source older apps. I will also continue to post Gists of code on GitHub for components and CSS and functions I think could be useful to others.

My first mobile app (foursquare) has always been open source and my Untappd webOS client growlr has been too. So, to add to that, I’ve opened the source for neato! today.

You can find all of my open source projects on GitHub (foursquare is under their account).

I will also make the commitment right now that neato! will always be open source, so when I port neato! to Enyo for cross-platform development, it’ll still be opened. It’ll still be for sale in the various app stores, but it’ll be open as well.

I like the idea of opening up Wooden Rows, but there are lots of server-side aspects of the app that I’m not sure I want to open up, especially since I don’t want my server to get hammered or compromised. I am willing to work with members of the Open Source community to discuss the feasibility of this. Not that it means I”ll definitely do it, but I’d like to hear some ideas before I decide not to.