open sourcing an app for a community take over rarely works

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and reading other people's code to meaningfully contribute is hard. Maybe less so with AIs tho

Open sourcing mid-way is the root. Open sourcing at the start gets easy small contributors which get attached to the project.  Over time they stay or always keep up with the progress. Compared to trying to read 3GB of rust files at one go just to fix and 2 line bug