I would say that was my experience with donations too. I had a site or side-project (featured on Techcrunch, Lifehacker, etc) but only made $40 in donations in

I would say that was my experience with donations too. I had a site or side-project (featured on Techcrunch, Lifehacker, etc) but only made $40 in donations in it's entire lifetime. It was a small winamp/itunes/kmplayer plugin so I didn't expect a lot of donations but with nearly 500K installs that is a very very small number. P.S. I never pestered my users for donation though. Never even optimized the donate button or anything like what I do with my business sites since that I made for fun purposes only on a weekend.