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Would you experiment with an unfamiliar framework for the first time if it cost $10? How many $10 frameworks would you be willing to pay for if you didn't know

Would you experiment with an unfamiliar framework for the first time if it cost $10? How many $10 frameworks would you be willing to pay for if you didn't know you were going to use them? Would you pay $10 to install django to spin up a new env to build a pluggable library for it that you intend to open source? What about $10 to populate your environment each time you run a build on circleci?

toyg 10y ago
It doesn't have to be forced, just a little nag (and $10 is too much, i'm thinking max $5). You could have it the 10th time you use runserver, or after 5 hours of uptime when you log on the admin panel, and so on. People who don't want to pay, wouldn't pay; but you need a relatively small amount of people to raise enough to pay a few salaries. In a lot of cases the cost could just be charged to the final client anyway, not the developer.