open-source - StackStarts

Sign in Subscribe

open-source

A collection of 2 posts

Screenshot of a GitHub repository UI for ChartDB highlighting the starred count (21.1k) with a small video thumbnail of a speaker on the right.

developer-tools

Interview with Jonathan Fishner, co-founder of ChartDB — built a niche app to $9K MRR

Developers are taught to hunt for moonshot ideas. Jonathan Fishner did something quieter and smarter: he picked one tiny, painful corner of the developer workflow, made that corner delightful, and let the audience adopt it on their own terms. The result is ChartDB — an open source, self-hosted database visualization tool

Postiz landing page hero showing headline 'Your agentic social media scheduling tool', platform icons, and a presenter thumbnail at right.

Interview with Nevo, builder of Postiz — an open source SaaS that reached $17K/month

Table of Contents * 🔑 Why open source is the distribution hack solo builders need * 🚦 Quick snapshot: what Postiz actually is * 🧭 The one mindset that changes everything * 🛠 The Open Source Playbook (step-by-step) * 📣 Where to post (channels that actually convert) * ⚙️ Tech stack and monthly operating picture * 🧩 How Postiz monetizes (and where the real