Lessons learned from my 10 year open source security project

I've been developing SpiderFoot (an OSINT/recon tool) for 10 years now, so wanted to share my story and try to distill some lessons learned in the hope they might be helpful to others here who might be considering writing/open-sourcing their own tools.

Here's the post: https://medium.com/@micallst/lessons-learned-from-my-10-year-open-source-project-4a4c8c2b4f64

And the repo: github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot

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TL;DR version of lessons from the post..

Lesson 1: Writing open source software can be very rewarding in ways you can’t predict

Lesson 2: Be in it for the …

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