I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
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I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
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Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#2since there's no such thing as a small advice - I'd appreciate a review of my sponsor page :-) https://github.com/sponsors/jcelerier
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#3Wow, that's a huge inspiration.
I've been sitting on GitHub sponsorship setup for htmx, but this motivates me to get that done. It would be amazing to work on a passion project and get paid for it.
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#4Props. Well done.
The thing that struck me most was the podcast appearance. I was distantly affiliated with the music industry at one point and I saw over and over the value of being in the right place at the right time. Great bands languish because they just weren't seen.
I don't mean to diminish the work, either the technological or the effort of finding sponsors. I just want to caution about extrapolating success stories to utopianism. Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming.
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#5these tend to come off like humble brags a bit considering working on the right thing at the right time is a big factor
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#6It's inspiring to see that oss can provide a comparable income to the more traditional software engineering career path. It looks like some salesmanship is required, I wonder if there's some service out there that takes care of that aspect to help oss projects to find sponsors?
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#7these tend to come off like humble brags a bit considering working on the right thing at the right time is a big factor
How so? They took the time to share their story and itemize and outline the whole approach for anyone to read.
Of course it's anecdotal and YMMV but to dismiss all the hard work and clear demand (people are paying) for the work by saying timing is a "big factor"? That seems unfair.
Of course timing matters in all things, but all the timing in the world won't help if you don't put in the work, or build something that people want.
Before someone points out an exception to the above, of course there are exceptions and people who get luckier than most, but this doesn't come across that way to me at all, and sharing the journey and the learnings is not something they had to do.
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#8$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
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#9$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#10$100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. Specially an engineer at this caliber. But working on OSS full time is probably 100x more fulfilling than building CRUD for a boring ad company.
You also don't need to live in the expensive SV area.
This.
In most parts of the world, $100k/year allows you to live very comfortably indeed.