This is a topic I'm quite interested in. I've had many product/project ideas that I think have merit, and a few that I think could be a viable business, but I s

This is a topic I'm quite interested in. I've had many product/project ideas that I think have merit, and a few that I think could be a viable business, but I simply cannot get behind the idea of giving something away for free for the ad revenue. To me, when I build a product, my personal ethos (and this is personal to me, not a moral judgment by any means) is that I want to build something for my customers that they will love and pay for. If that means I have fewer customers, then so be it, but dammit I want my customers to be my customers, not my product.