# How to make money from a Node-RED node?

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**Created:** [28 October 2020 09:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-make-money-from-a-node-red-node/34946 "2020-10-28T09:50:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyeth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/tyeth/32/23442_2.png) [@tyeth](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tyeth)\
**Post date:** [6 November 2020 12:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-make-money-from-a-node-red-node/34946/21 "2020-11-06T12:38:58Z")

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Good luck as well from me, but also wanted to add that the only morally good versions of money making I've seen from the open-source world are focussed around support. _(like RedHat enterprise support kept them afloat_)

> Time costs money and those with some are often willing to pay to for subject matter experts to hold their hand _or_ do it all for them.

Figure out a good method of tempting in **your** customer base, maybe a free first video support call up to 5minutes (probably then a paying support customer for life), maybe your customers are old and phone or in-person (covid-safe 😉 ) support is best, play to their needs.

Alternatively the cloud subscription model is clever but very often too exploitative (plus the offline-use-case issues mentioned above), but if done well with well chosen tiers (always a free/token-gesture-payment tier to tempt people in and allow experimenting with your Paid-for-service) then can be a good model, just make sure to cover your platform costs!

Oh and I disassemble obfuscated code for fun, it helps me learn, you won't stop anyone that cares enough to persistently try.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [5 January 2021 12:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-make-money-from-a-node-red-node/34946/22 "2021-01-05T12:38:59Z")

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