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Sorry if this comes off as a noob question, I'm not a technical person but came from a marketing background. Generally what is the monetisation model for found
by PradeetPatel 5y ago
Sorry if this comes off as a noob question, I'm not a technical person but came from a marketing background.
Generally what is the monetisation model for founders developing languages like Cooklang? Would they sell support for the language, or create an ecosystem around it?
- neetle 5y agoNot everything needs a financial incentive
- yuroFlash 5y agoFireship: The Dark Side of Open Source / What really happened to Faker.js? https://youtu.be/R6S-b_k-ZKY https://youtu.be/R6S-b_k-ZKY
- seanw444 5y agoSome people have hobby projects they really don't want anything other than donations for. Sometimes they don't even want donations. Money brings responsibility, and responsibility kills the fun. Donations will begin to feel like you owe the donators your time, even though you do not. But it's hard to break out of that mindset. Especially once you start getting negative remarks for not implementing enough features, despite the donations.
- neetle 5y agoThis feels like a non sequitur. Their project being open source or not doesn't protect their mental health spiralling. This could have happened to a paid lib, and you'd be out of luck due to vendor lock rather than just picking a fork.
- bribri 5y agoThe author does offer a paid app which lets you build shopping lists and view recipes, so there are some options for monetization.
- roel_v 5y agoLOL. Simple projects like this are a dime a dozen. There's no money to be made here.