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I got the email on Friday telling me I'm one of the fortunate few to get $550 and cynically thought that it was some sort of GitHub credit; needless to say that
by Caligatio 4y ago
I got the email on Friday telling me I'm one of the fortunate few to get $550 and cynically thought that it was some sort of GitHub credit; needless to say that I was pleasantly surprised that it was actual cash!
I've been solo maintaining my project since 2008 and average about ~425,000 downloads/week per NPM. My sum total of donations prior to GitHub's was maybe $5. Making money on a JavaScript library was certainly never my goal but I sincerely appreciate the acknowledgement that my project has worth that someone is willing to pay for.
- fartcannon 4y agoWhich library?
- c0balt 4y agoNot op, but they probably refer to jsSHA[0]. (Based on author name of repo and package) [0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jssha https://www.npmjs.com/package/jssha
- fartcannon 4y agoThanks, might as well spread the word right?
- Caligatio 4y agoYep, that's me! It's a niche project (even more so when I started it to salt/hash passwords client side during the expensive SSL days) so it's almost never worth advertising :)
- fartcannon 4y agoMaybe not glamorous, but definitely has worth (so many downloads!)
- andrew_ 4y agosame! I maintain a humble little lib used by prettier, etc and it receives 5.5 million weekly downloads. I've got a few more like that as well. They've never received a donation, and I have just a few monthly donors (to which I'm very grateful) so this was cool to see.