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Actually come to think of it, I've made some open source apps that people asked if they could donate to, because they were so excited by the possibilities my ap
by sdegutis 8y ago
Actually come to think of it, I've made some open source apps that people asked if they could donate to, because they were so excited by the possibilities my apps created, and by the convenience they now had because of them. I created a Patreon for this but have yet to link to it anywhere because I keep sinking into cynicism from all the ways I haven't been able to make money. But that's not the attitude I had when I created my window managers. Software that focuses on user-happiness can make money through donations. Just, probably not a full-time income.
EDIT: Apparently that's not true, you can make a full time income. Godot makes $10k per month in donations. And a month ago it was $8k. Wow.
- abraham_lincoln 8y agoPlease post your Patreon link or a link to the link.
- sdegutis 8y agoMy patreon is on my HN profile, but I plan to put it in the readme of a new open source window manager I've been working on when I announce it. I figured out a way to emphasize ease of use and user experience so much more than I was able to with Mjolnir or Phoenix. It's really exciting and I think it'll make automation a lot more accessible for a lot more macOS users.
- wishinghand 8y agoTo add to the list of programmers making money- Evan You, creator of VueJS, makes around $11,000 on Patreon. The creator of the CSS library Bulma makes several hundred dollars, and the Quasar Framework makes a couple thousand.
- sdegutis 8y agoEvan actually makes $16k/month [1]. Wow. If only I could figure out how to make a quarter of that from my open source work, I'd be in business. [1] https://www.patreon.com/evanyou https://www.patreon.com/evanyou