Ask HN: How to monetize support of existing free and open-source projects?

Post by Mz » Tue, Jan 01, 2013, 3:19 AM UTC

saurik wrote: post #10

Mz wrote: post #9

I think it depends a lot on context. I used to participate in a free forum. The founder was brilliant at choking off all possible avenues of monetization while bitching endlessly about wanting to make money (edit: mostly to help cover costs, not necessarily profit per se in his case). He did not want to ask for donations and he also did not want to commercialize it. However it was quite popular and outgrowing its hos…

> He said it to say "shut the fuck up". Instead, he ended up quitting his job and doing the comic full time. Does this story continue? Getting a bunch of money from a one-time plea or stunt is drastically different than a recurring revenue stream; I'd love to hear how well he did after he started doing it full time (and how he chose to monetize; still donations?).