Really thoughtful comment! Thanks for taking the time.
Yeah, figuring out the right business model around open source is always a balancing act. And it’s never done. We started Tiptap by monetizing some of the more complex editor extensions, but with the launch of cloud services, we’ve gradually shifted that line to “cloud vs non-cloud,” like you said. Still, that line keeps moving as the ecosystem grows.
Your point about one-time payments for solo developers or indie founders makes a lot of sense. Honestly, we've been actively thinking about such an offering for quite a while and how to make Tiptap more accessible without giving up on sustainability.
Hey, Philip here, one of the co-founders of überdosis and Tiptap. I’ve got a lot of thoughts on this, so I’ll keep it short.
While there’s no right or wrong, my experience is that starting as a solo freelancer to cover your bills while building your product usually works better than running an agency. Even with just 3 or 4 people, you’ll spend a ton of time on sales and project management, which can quickly bury your own product work.
We nearly killed our company at überdosis when transitioning from an agency to a product company. On paper, funneling agency revenue into product development sounded perfect. In practice, juggling client deadlines (with real pressure) and the growing needs of Tiptap (maintenance, support, new features) was brutal.
Open source is also powerful. It helps you build a community and attract leads, but it demands a lot of maintenance and support. It’s worth it if you have a clear strategy.
My personal advice: keep your operation as lean as possible, handle a few selective freelance projects to stay afloat, and pour every remaining resource into your product. Once it gains enough traction, you can let go of client work without risking your financial stability. Good luck :-)
Not a real-world case, but for React apps, we have at least tried to clarify the most common errors we know of in a performance guide: https://tiptap.dev/docs/guides/performance
Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it. I would like to understand if you haven't noticed our ProseMirror related content yet, or if there is something missing for you.
1. We mention ProseMirror in the first sentence of the editor docs "Tiptap is a headless wrapper around ProseMirror - a toolkit for building rich text WYSIWYG editors [...]" at: https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/getting-started/overview
We had built and realtime speech to text editor that sync between Radiologist. After transcribing speech it automatically generate radiologist report.For report
It is block based Editor that allows easy dragging of each findings and dragging have limit of regions , for example some blocks are not allowed to drag outside of certain sections, some blocks are allowed.
Some automatically sorts according to bullet points.
Interesting. We developed a POC for speech-to-text earlier this year, but it's not ready for release yet. Thanks for sharing your case. Since Tiptap is headless, we're always curious to see what people build on top of us :-)