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How do you plan to support the team and project, financially, over the long haul?

We intend to be an open-core company, and monetize support and tools around the product.

Cool. You might consider describing Muze as a project rather than a product. E.g., On the homepage: Our first product, Muze... -> Our first project, Muze....

Thanks for this nugget. Will consider and then change! Curious question: why would you not want to call an open source library as product?

I associate "product" with something that is sold, so when I saw Muze described as a "product," but I didn't see a price, I was somewhat wary that the price was hidden or forthcoming.

"Project" is also a fairly common term to refer to open source tools and the community around them. See the nav bars for linuxfoundation.org or numfocus.org, for instance.

^^^ I had the same thought process. I spent a few minutes clicking around the site to figure out the catch to the open-source library that is the only product of a company with a $$$$ domain.

That's just the first product - open-core.

We will be making more products in future, some OS, some paid. So yes, monetization is on the cards :) - but our first goal is to create real good value!

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