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Hi Diemorz, I’m very glad for your comment. This is something that I can honestly say I have not considered. My biggest fears were 1) making sure that the whol
by cavneb 9y ago
Hi Diemorz,
I’m very glad for your comment. This is something that I can honestly say I have not considered. My biggest fears were 1) making sure that the whole idea isn’t rejected by the developer community and 2) making sure I have enough money in place to give to developers.
I started off initially by doing a 50/50 split with developers. I also started by charging $1/click to sponsors. I quickly realized that it would take a very long time before I could get enough sponsors and developers to support myself full time. Because of this, I dropped the distributions to 60/40. It still is not making much money at all. Code Sponsor may take 60%, but I take 0%.
Now in the future, if it does continue to grow at a healthy rate and if Github will allow us to sustain OSS through README’s, then I would definitely consider a more developer-sided split.
All I want is to help sustain OSS and do it as a living.
- takluyver 9y agoThanks for your openness about the finances, and thanks for building something to address this issue, whatever the difficulties and drawbacks are.