I don't want to be paid for my open-source code because that introduces expectations of support that I'm not interested in providing. The whole point of open-so

I don't want to be paid for my open-source code because that introduces expectations of support that I'm not interested in providing. The whole point of open-source is that I can just toss that stuff out onto the internet, and if someone else wants to adjust it to their needs then the only thing they need is a text editor. Also, at $1 per user, your projects would need 15,000 new users per year just to match USA minimum wage. There's a reason commercial software has high price points (e.g. $50 for video games) or operates on a subscription model. You'd need marketing for that kind of userbase growth, which implies (1) overhead and (2) annihilation of forums like HN under a tidal wave of spam. Finally, as a developer, there's no way I'd pay $1 per open-source project because nearly all open-source code is crap. I'm willing to pay high prices for good software, which is why the niche of commercial software is saturated and any developer with a pulse can get $100,000 per year at a cubicle farm in San Jose.