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.

Open source kills monetization optionality

The moment LetItDo is on GitHub:

Someone wraps it, hosts it, and charges for it

Customers who would have paid me $5/month build their own from source

Acquirers stop being interested

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