Next goal: CA$76.88 per month - I can pay all my monthly bills
This is why the open-source software is sad. The author will keep burning through his youthful energy in return for some words of appreciation (but much more issues and demands), and will at best quietly give up at some moment, or at worst freak out and have his colors/faker moment [0].
At the same time, products like this create the expectations that some types of software should be free (i.e. subsidized by the author's willingness to not have a life) and make it 10x harder for people like the author to turn their work into a revenue-generating business.
That said, if you have 16K stars on Github, you absolutely do have enough userbase to sell a paid premium edition and eventually grow it into your main job.
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This is why the open-source software is sad. The author will keep burning through his youthful energy in return for some words of appreciation (but much more issues and demands), and will at best quietly give up at some moment, or at worst freak out and have his colors/faker moment [0].
At the same time, products like this create the expectations that some types of software should be free (i.e. subsidized by the author's willingness to not have a life) and make it 10x harder for people like the author to turn their work into a revenue-generating business.
That said, if you have 16K stars on Github, you absolutely do have enough userbase to sell a paid premium edition and eventually grow it into your main job.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863672