> May I ask why are you not trying to leverage the assortment of useful tools you wrote with sizeable following to be some kind of side income? I started contr

> May I ask why are you not trying to leverage the assortment of useful tools you wrote with sizeable following to be some kind of side income? I started contributing to open source because I learn a lot from it since my graduation days. I think of it as a payback to the community. Having said that - I do appreciate users donating now and then. :) > This was partly inspired by the 'to spend more time with his kid than at a computer' quote. My regular job is a demanding one. So I have to work smart to save time for my kid and family. Some of the utilities were written to help with that. > Do you have a rough idea about the number of actual users, other than github stars? Not really. But I know for sure even some orgs use some of my utilities.