> I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money. Th

> I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money. This is the truth that hurts. I get to work closely with some extremely good marketing colleagues in my day job; I'm still waiting for some of their knowledge/insights/drive to rub off on me, which I can then apply to marketing my own hobbyist endeavours. Fortunately I'm not expecting to make money from my JS library (or my poetry) so I'm not too disappointed. However ... > Instead we get articles like these asking for some sort of fund for OSS (which do exist, but again, need to be competed for) I did apply for a small grant from something called the Chrome UI fund[1] last December. I thought it would be nice to have some cash to cover hosting costs, incidentals, etc - peanut funding, if you like. Sadly, I've never received any communication about the application or even an acknowledgment that the people running the fund had received it. A polite "Thanks, but no" would have been nice. [1] - https://web.dev/ui-fund/ https://web.dev/ui-fund/