Show HN: Open-core icon sets that took me 12 years to create
I have learned to stay away from open-core icon sets. It seems like they are doing a very nice balancing act where the icons you need later on happen to be in the paid section.<p>I also dislike this is promoted as an open source icon set. This is a commercial product providing free samples. By design, it has a funnel of free &#x2F; &#x27;open source&#x27; users of which some will be turned into customers.<p>Finally, it&#x27;s amazing to me as a programmer how commercial minded designers are in tech. It would never occur to me to create a programming library where you have the &#x27;basic&#x27; open source version and the &#x27;optimized&#x27; commercial version. But basically this is how graphics &#x2F; icons &#x2F; page templates &#x2F; etc are being marketed.<p>I guess this is where any kind of &#x27;community&#x27; helps. If a library has a community, it would be forked the 2nd day if it tries to pull something like this. But icons &#x2F; templates &#x2F; graphics are generally the work of a single person or small group of persons. There is <i>no</i> community that may philosophically decide they disagree and thus fork the project on new license terms.<p>All in all, quite depressing. But, I understand, we all need to eat.