I remember back when I was younger I used to be active on a programming website (ok it was a game hacking website, but I was active in the programming sections

I remember back when I was younger I used to be active on a programming website (ok it was a game hacking website, but I was active in the programming sections mostly). I wrote a number of tutorials, some of what I wrote was crap. I was 15/16 at the time, but other stuff was pretty useful. The point being that all this content was shared for free, all the code was/is in the public domain, I know that some of my code made it into, ahem, commercial products. Turns out it was pretty productive for content that was generated without any compensation at all. I wasn't the only person doing this, most content is still available from others. Naturally the internet, most companies, cannot possibly run on goodwill and motivation alone. But for me it does show that in certain niches money is not an issue. As long as there is a platform there will always be hidden gems to be found.