Reasons to Abandon a FOSS Project: The Firewall Project's Dilemma

The project lead of "The Firewall Project" explains that his team developed an open-source application security (AppSec) platform due to frustration with enterprise vendors and their pricing. The project, launched nine months ago, has achieved its initial goals. However, industry experts have advised the project lead to abandon the effort, believing that the project cannot compete with tools like Snyk and Semgrep. The project lead is seeking community feedback to assess the project's potential and has set up a demo to gather input.