Overcoming Open Source FOMO: My HacktOberfest 2026 Journey Starts Now

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"It's too late for you to get into open source." That was what a friend told me recently during a casual conversation about tech and career growth. They argued that the open-source ecosystem is already saturated, that the learning curve is too steep, and that everyone else started years ahead of me. Hearing that triggered a massive dose of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). For a moment, I wondered if I had missed the train entirely. But then I realized something: open source isn't a race with a fixed finish line—it’s an evolving ecosystem.

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