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Gina Häußge is the only one making reasonable money on Patron for a software project, last I checked. I exchanged several emails with her about this very topic
by jcoffland 8y ago
Gina Häußge is the only one making reasonable money on Patron for a software project, last I checked. I exchanged several emails with her about this very topic. Despite her success in fund raising, even she was concerned about the long-term viability of this sort of funding.
I also am the author of an active Open-Source project. I accept donations but they have never amounted to much.
- sjdbwixb 8y agoRpcs3 is making good money
- justinclift 8y agoThere do seem to be others. The author of Vue.js seems to be doing ok as well: https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/overview https://www.patreon.com/evanyou/overview And yep, I definitely agree. The long term sustainability of projects via Patreon clearly hasn't been established yet. But, at least some _are+ actually now making decent money, so we can find out how sustainable things are over time. Hopefully it mostly goes well, but yeah... it's unproven thus far. ;)
- copesc 8y agoSindre Sorhus has a successful Patreon as well: https://www.patreon.com/sindresorhus https://www.patreon.com/sindresorhus but he's kind of a unicorn (pun intended). I am sure this would not work for everyone.
- ghaff 8y agoAnd $3500 per month is not what a lot (most?) people here would consider a successful financial model even given some consulting etc. on top of that. It depends on where you live of course but bringing in $50K per year (with no benefits) or so in donations is not something a lot of professionals--especially those qualified to work for major software companies--would consider a sustainable income stream.
- justinclift 8y agoHe looks to be located in Bangkok: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/414#issuecomment-243228822 https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/414#issuecomment-... The creator of Vue.js (in sibling comment) has a Patreon account with a monthly income of $US15k+ (at time of writing this). That seems to be more in line with "standard" professional rates. :)
- progval 8y agoMastodon's main dev too: https://www.patreon.com/mastodon https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
- justinclift 8y agoJust noticed you're the primary author of CAMotics. I'd heard of it before, but haven't yet tried it out. I'll try to get time to do so, as I've recently started helping out a different CNC project (github.com/synthetos/g2). They kind of look like they might complement each other. Not 100% sure yet though. ;)
- jcoffland 8y agoYes, I'm friends with the Syntheos guys. It can work with CAMotics. You might also be interested in another project I work on, the Buildbitics Open-Source CNC controller.
- justinclift 8y agoThanks. :) Looking through the Buildbotics stuff now and some of the video's. Looks nifty! Is the motion control done by TinyG2 or g2core? If so, would it be ok to add some appropriate links to our "Who uses g2core?" page? https://github.com/synthetos/g2/wiki/g2core-in-use https://github.com/synthetos/g2/wiki/g2core-in-use
- justinclift 8y agoAhhh, looks like something custom instead: https://github.com/buildbotics/bbctrl-firmware https://github.com/buildbotics/bbctrl-firmware No worries at all. :)
- jcoffland 8y agoWe did start out using the TinyG firmware but have since replaced it with our own code.
- gkya 8y agoThe recurring online payments/donations economy is just starting out. Give it some time to pick up steam and get a better UI, I believe it will become more popular.