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Some other ideas: 1 - Charge for support. 2 - Put a Patreon and/or Paypal link prominently on the front page of the website for your product, and clearly and
by pmoriarty 6y ago
Some other ideas:
1 - Charge for support.
2 - Put a Patreon and/or Paypal link prominently on the front page of the website for your product, and clearly and politely ask for financial support. Often people want to help out financially, but they don't see an easy and convenient way to do so. This is one way to let them know how they can.
3 - Consider running Kickstarter campaigns to add new features. See the successful Magit kickstarter[1] for a perfect model of how this was done for a very popular open source project.
[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-the-magical-git-client https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th...
- amelius 6y ago> Often people want to help out financially, but they don't see an easy and convenient way to do so. Except people who use your product (engineers) have one extra hurdle: they need an OK from the financial department, and I suppose that this hurdle is often quite big.