How to Launch an Open Source Project

When you open source something with the goal of becoming a business, it's important to find customers that can be good design partners. I think picking and choosing those people that you want to do support engagements with is really important. There was one point where I think GitHub issues on inflex DB were growing so fast we just could not keep up with them. It's possible to get sucked into features that you don't really believe are important part of the core product.