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Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene
by 1_player 6y ago
Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers.
They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.
- sarasasa28 6y agoIf I was OBS owner I would totally charge for it, don't even quote me
- choward 6y agoThis is a good example of why I like open source. If someone decides to pull a move like that it can be forked and the project can live on.
- ghaff 6y agoThat mostly works if the owner isn't also the person doing most of the work on the project.
- choward 6y agoEven then though, you can continue to keep using it as is and not have to worry about them doing some shady updates now that they sold out.
- dragonwriter 6y agoMore to the point, it only works if the owner isn't the only person who is willing and able to maintain the project. Open licensing lets you maintain your own fork, but it doesn't by itself grant you the drive, general skill, and project-specific knowledge to do so.
- Aerroon 6y agoOne of the reasons why OBS got so popular compared to Xsplit is that it is free.
- MaysonL 6y agoInteresting – Xsplit is reported as a $20K sponsor on the website: https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget (Scroll down to see the list of contributors.)
- dancemethis 6y agoWell, yes, it's Free Software, but at this quality level it is be totally fine to sell the ready-to-run binary at a cost.
- pityJuke 6y agoTwitch and YouTube sponsor OBS as well. The tier below them has a minimum of $50k per year, so they probably pay a lot. Check the OpenCollective as well. https://obsproject.com/contribute https://obsproject.com/contribute
- ihuman 6y agoDo you mean Twitch and Facebook? I don't see YouTube on that page
- alexashka 6y agoI don't know - I'm really surprised that anyone is willing to do the incremental work necessary to keep projects like these going, for free. I guess there are people far better than I on this earth and that's excellent news if you ask me :)
- dewey 6y agoI think Patreon is just for the main guy (Jim), but the project itself is also receiving funds separately: https://opencollective.com/obsproject/contribute https://opencollective.com/obsproject/contribute
- tyingq 6y agoI think you left off the bit that shows the contributors. Here's the budget and contributors: https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget Another comment mentioned Facebook and Twitch contribute elsewhere. Of course, it seems very widely used, so the point that it's under funded stands.
- MaysonL 6y agoAccording to their website[0] their current balance is $97,012.47 USD, and their annual budget is ~ $47,327.66 USD, so they're probably not too badly unerfunded. [0] https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget
- tyingq 6y agoGood find! It's pretty clear that the value provided exceeds the value provided.
- skinnymuch 6y agoThat budget appears to mean no one is getting paid for OBS. The project is huge so likely a lot of hours are committed to it.
- kbenson 6y agoOr no one is getting paid full time. That might be a good thing for a project like this. A full time employee might bring with it some perverse incentives (if it reaches a state where the community isn't clamoring for a full year's worth an an engineer's time, what happens to that engineer when the work is gone, or what if they find things that aren't needed to justify more work?) If their current balance is over two years worth of their annual budget and the users are happy with the project and how its progressing, I'm happy to think they're in a good place until I hear evidence to convince me otherwise.
- jpdb 6y agoI interact with Jim (obs creator) pretty regularly and he definitely deserves the support. Dude is extremely talented and kind. He puts an insane amount of effort into OBS.
- hashtagmarkup 6y agoIt really shows. I just switched back to Windows after 10 years of macs, and OBS was a driving factor. Can't believe how powerful and easy to use it is. I ran my high school's analog TV studio 25 years ago, and we ran a live news broadcast everyday for the lunch room. Effects that took half a room of gear and thousands of watts of power are all a few clicks and sliders away.
- codetrotter 6y ago> OBS was a driving factor Why? OBS runs on macOS too
- abstrct 6y agoIt runs horribly on macOS. Like a night and day difference. If I understand correctly the difference is primarily regarding the encoder. I also switched my streaming machine over to windows recently. Edit: ok, “horrible” is dramatic, but it was honestly shocking the first time I booted into windows and gave OBS a try there. Exact same computer that struggled with OBS in macOS produced a much better output without breaking a sweat.
- wastedhours 6y agoUsing Boot Camp or a Hackintosh to be able to do that on the same computer? Might help to make the distinction between it overperforming via Boot Camp or underperforming on a Hackintosh.
- abstrct 6y agoOver-performing via Bootcamp. The machine is a fairly new Mac Mini.
- concernedctzn 6y agoPretty interesting how streamlabs managed to capitalize off OBS
- taurath 6y agoI know of adult games making orders of magnitude more :(
- gitgud 6y ago> "They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear." Well it's an open-source project right? Anyone can pick up where they left off. Side note: Has an abandoned project of this size ever been forked and continued by another team?
- closeparen 6y agoGogs -> Gitea?
- TheDong 6y agoGogs was a relatively small codebase, and it had a single maintainer before, not a team.
- microcolonel 6y agoOpenOffice maybe.
- geofft 6y agoI thought LibreOffice has (approximately) continuity of maintainership with the OOo team, which itself had continuity of maintainership with the StarOffice team. Apache OpenOffice is moribund and has never really regained active development, despite being the official successor according to Oracle corporate.
- edoceo 6y agoI'm boutta up that by $100/mo. Just got 26 installed on my Gentoo box, seamless upgrade. I've only been a user for a short, short time but it's amazing.
- RobotCaleb 6y agoI'm sorry, I don't understand how to parse your first sentence
- leephillips 6y agoExcuse me, I speak Jive. I'm boutta up that by $100/mo. = I am about to increase that amount by $100 per month.
- lwhsiao 6y agoHe's saying he is about to up (or increase) that by $100/mo.
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- InitEnabler 6y agoI think I remember two big streamers Destiny and HasanPiker donated a combined 4k or 5k to the project last year on stream. Really wish streamers would know that these are open source projects where their only source of income is from donations.
- Semaphor 6y ago> That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch Do they? I heard XSplit was used by bigger streamers?