As someone whose been on the other side, seeing money come in really obligates me to actually do something. There's a deeper feeling of responsibility when som

As someone whose been on the other side, seeing money come in really obligates me to actually do something. There's a deeper feeling of responsibility when someone's given you cash and I seem to prioritize things that otherwise I probably wouldn't have found the time for. So you may think you "get" nothing, but what you might actually get is a developer to spend more time on it. Now of course there's diminishing returns, but zero to non-zero obligates the honest person. Beyond that it's mostly headcount. I'd work more for 10 people that gave $1 than for 1 person that gave $10 because I've gone from having a sponsor to an audience.