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How I Built It: $17K/Month Open Source SaaS

Name: How I Built It: $17K/Month Open Source SaaS
Uploaded: 2026-01-28
Duration: 22 min 52 s
Description: Nevo built Postiz, an open-source social-media scheduling SaaS, to $17K MRR and 25K+ GitHub stars over several years. The episode is a marketing playbook for open-source projects: niche communities, compliance basics (Delve), how to convert GitHub attention to paid SaaS, and the underlying tech stack.

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Synopsis

Nevo built Postiz, an open-source social-media scheduling SaaS, to $17K MRR and 25K+ GitHub stars over several years. The episode is a marketing playbook for open-source projects: niche communities, compliance basics (Delve), how to convert GitHub attention to paid SaaS, and the underlying tech stack.

Ideas in this episode

Open-source SaaS with paid hosted tiers
Nevo's Postiz case shows an open-source social scheduling SaaS reaching $17K MRR and 25K+ GitHub stars through community and GitHub-to-paid conversion.
Niche community media brand
Nevo built Postiz open-source social-media scheduling into $17K MRR and 25K+ GitHub stars by seeding the codebase into niche communities and converting GitHub attention to a paid SaaS tier.