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Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by asicsp »

kuu wrote: post #11

40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.

I had a similar experience with one of my GitHub repos [0] that is currently 9k+ stars. I added donation link when it was about 5k stars (after it went viral courtesy HN). But this was before GitHub sponsors. I removed donation links after I got only a single donation in about a year.

I had much better results when I started converting my tutorials into ebooks and sold them. Obviously having a paid product is different, but I'm referring to the paid sales I got whenever I put up 'pay what you want' offer.

[0] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by kakkan »

kuu wrote: post #11

40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.

I got 100k visits for my project https://reallyconfused.co/ and 0 donations because my donation link was broken and I noticed it too late...

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by mathisonturing »

alentred wrote: post #10
Webox wrote: post #6

now it went viral and what is the real impact? It will end in one of many started github repos, you might rememeber it but most people don't need to look up a clone. While i like that we appreachiate small things, sometimes i do wonder if it would have saved more time if we wouldnt do things. I have to find a weekly hn newsletter system.

> I have to find a weekly hn newsletter system. https://hackernewsletter.com/

Is this still active? The current issue example links an issue from 2019

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by capableweb »

taytus wrote: post #39
Ensorceled wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does curating a list, a list that at least 7500 people found worthy of visiting and starring and 550 people forked, count as "zero added value"? What exactly would qualify as "added value" in your mind?

Something you’d donate to.

The problem is that you assume that services/projects that contribute more value gets more donations (or vice-versa) while the donations mostly come in based on how well you market the service/project instead.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by Supermancho »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #27
atxbcp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero hosting cost, zero added value, why would you donate anything for a project like this ?

Someone put their time into creating it? Also perhaps because it is useful to people and if we ever hope to keep good content coming, without having to suffer through endless ads, we should support, what we deem to be good content.

> Someone put their time into creating it?

That's not an intrinsically valuable act.

Re: My simple GitHub project went viral

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Post by resurge »

kakkan wrote: post #42
kuu wrote: post #11

40k visits and only 1 donation. Not that I complain or that I think he deserves more or less, just interesting to see the ratio.

I got 100k visits for my project https://reallyconfused.co/ and 0 donations because my donation link was broken and I noticed it too late...

Hey, I think some other stuff might be broken too. When I open this link I get a bunch of errors in the console: https://reallyconfused.co/roadmap/from-c#-to-asp.net-develop...

This was also the first course in the list, so not exactly a good first impression.

The console lists this: https://pastebin.com/KQqjdCc8

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