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I think it's the same for startups. Sometimes you aren't making enough money yet. Maybe your spouse is telling you you should work on something else. But if users keep taking the time to write in and say thank you, you need to persevere. That's my situation at least [1]. [1]: https://fman.io/blog/motivation/
Idea: Let's create a Thank you day for all creators and maintainers by opening one issue for whatever we use. Let's star them and like them. Or is it a bad idea for some reason?
If you’ve ever gone through a birthday where nobody wished you, I don’t think you would want a maintainer to ever feel that.
I just started one of my first open source projects in the last few months and I've fixed ~3 issues so far. A thank you would be amazing. I'm not going to STOP fixing issues, but a thank you would really motivate me to keep it up. Kudos to this guy.
Irv Grousbeck, one of the legendary professors of entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB, says it over and over: thanks and praise cost you nothing but mean the world to colleagues. And whenever possible, praise in public and critique in private.
Thank yous do help a lot. And they help outweigh the nasty stuff many maintainers get (harassment, death threats, rape threats, doxing, etc).
why would anyone do this to dev? I mean I can bitch about aspects of some app, but can't imagine why would anyone do any of those real question for me would be if devs prefer donation/buying the app or thank you, which one is more helpful
I honestly think it comes down to this.
I maintain a moderately successful JavaScript library and there are a few things that absolutely make my day: people sending me an email telling me how they're using it (I see dependent projects on NPM but I love hearing about cool things!), people saying thanks, and people sending me any donation. I've had a handful of people send me a few bucks over the years and I was absolutely floored each time. In total I might…
More than helping fellow developers with your library, you help keep alive the spirit and philosophy of free sharing of knowledge and information. And in a world increasingly hostile to these ideas, your impact cannot be understated.
Can you use perlbug to submit a thank-you note?
Yes, you can do this by either using the -T
option, or by invoking the program as perlthanks.
Thank-you notes are good. It makes people smile.