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That's a really interesting thought, we've never thought of this direction! Are there any successful products/companies with such business model (providing testing and certificates for money)

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I think the reference examples would be certificate authorities, ratings agencies, Underwriters Laboratories, ISO9000 or SCAMPI inspectors/auditors, organic/kosher/halal/GMO-free food stamp companies etc.

Selling quality marks can be quite lucrative, but you'd definitely need to think about exactly what people buy. And definitely think hard about deep insurance.

Awesome, I'm honestly not deeply familiar with most of those industries (let alone maybe credit rating agencies), but this is definitely a model that we need to explore. Thanks!

The parent comment said it well. This could be a good backup model to work with that could serve as a pivot if it turns out that most developers, like myself, tend to be pretty good at finding a package that fits their needs, but aren't going to read through the entire package to see if it's safe or if it opens connections to some random IP address in the install script.

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