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Riley makes €11K a month via Patreon because of AltStore :) (And deserves double that, of course.)
by Marciplan 6y ago
Riley makes €11K a month via Patreon because of AltStore :)
(And deserves double that, of course.)
- brailsafe 6y agoThat is a hell of a lot of money. Has AltStore been around that long or did that come from his work on the emulators?
- saurik 6y ago(FWIW, the person--me--who actually developed and maintained all of the open source application signing code that AltStore continues to use was making negative thousands of dollars a month from just hosting AltStore's predecessor, due to... and this is clearly on me... having no revenue model from it, and so had to largely stop working on it and get a "day job" outside of the jailbreak ecosystem. I'm really am OK with Riley making money for the AltServer and Mail.app hacks, but $13k/mo feels somewhat extreme? edit: OK, someone else in a sibling comment to this one noted that he also has emulators as a big part of his Patreon. I'm much happier mentally modelling that the vast majority of the people giving him money are interested in those ;P.)
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHow did you manage to spend thousands of dollars a month on hosting? That's free on GitHub and many other places. But it's certainly true that money in OSS is in marketing, not the software.
- strogonoff 6y agoSounds like you/your projects should at least be mentioned over at https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore, I’ve seen READMEs give credit for much less.