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This is completely anecdotal and almost certainly doesn't scale, but in proportion to its obscurity and especially the effort put in, I feel like I've gotten a
by archagon 9y ago
This is completely anecdotal and almost certainly doesn't scale, but in proportion to its obscurity and especially the effort put in, I feel like I've gotten a surprising number of donations for my recent side-mouse-button-fixing OSS project[1]. I remember reading on HN that even the most popular and well-maintained OSS software basically sees nothing from donation links. My humble app nets about $5 every week. I'm pretty sure the reason is that I included a Donorbox link, since it lets you pay by credit card without having to deal with Paypal. It’s all been Donorbox so far — nothing from Paypal at all.
[1]: http://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net http://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net
- azdle 9y agoHoly cow, I just figured this was impossible to do on OSX, downloaded & donated!
- archagon 9y agoThank you!
- aphextron 9y agoThis is one of my biggest pet peeves ever in OSX. Thanks.
- epicide 9y agoYeah, one of the best decisions/discoveries I've ever made was just putting a little PayPal donate button on fruitbasket.io. It's something I threw together in a few hours, but I guess it helped people. I'm still seeing a few donations here and there almost exactly a year later.
- voltagex_ 9y ago$5/week would easily pay for my hosting and AWS experiments. $10/week would let me pay for a proper Travis CI / AppVeyor plan (I mess around a lot with buildroot but it takes too long on single / dual thread workers) I've attracted a couple of one off donations, but never been able to get anything consistent. I imagine it'd be terrifying to run a project with actual expenses to cover.
- archagon 9y agoYeah, that’s why I host all my projects on Github Pages. Everything is “free” (included in the Github service I already pay for) and I don’t have to worry about server costs or maintenance.