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> and offered GitHub money to help It's not like they can just run a few SQL queries on prod and have the author PayPal them 10$. They need to create a plan,
by media-trivial 4y ago
> and offered GitHub money to help
It's not like they can just run a few SQL queries on prod and have the author PayPal them 10$.
They need to create a plan, cost estimate, risk assessment, get management/qa/security/SRE/... approvals, write the code, documentation, reviews, tests, run on prod, create invoice, etc. This means 10-20 people work for 1-2 days. I doubt that the author is willing to pay 20000-60000$ for this.
- TAForObvReasons 4y agohttps://httpie.io/ https://httpie.io/ has a star display on the homepage, and the story https://httpie.io/about https://httpie.io/about alludes to the star count: > That humble tool, which we open-sourced, quickly captured developers’ hearts and rapidly became one of the top projects on GitHub. > We’ve raised a Seed Round ... It's not hard to believe the seed round and the entire pitch of the commercial venture was tied to the star count, and it's not hard to believe that the author would drop $1/star to restore the count.