A few years back it seemed like developer tools had no way to monetize. Open Source alternatives and the Cloud providers routinely came in the way of straightforward ways of monetization.<p>But in recent years, there have been successful SaaS offerings and APIs targeted at developers (Stripe, Twilio, PagerDuty, Postman, Cloudflare, Tailscale and so on). Trends like product-led growth and solo entrepreneurship are aligned with the growth of developer tools.<p>So do you feel it's becoming commercially viable to sell tools to developers again?
They've always been monetized? A few years ago, you didn't get private Git repositories unless you paid or ran your own server. That's shifted and money is made from CI minutes and things now. Editors - JetBrains, VS, etc. are all commercial.