Great reading, thank you and best of luck!
GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
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Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#82Making a living on FOSS is hard, as you discovered. I hope you succeed, of course. But since I have no good idea what your app is, except "a browser for developers" from the blog text, there is really no chance that I would ever search for this app, hear about it thru word of mouth, or eanything really that would make me end up testing your app. Here's some other ways you could have tried to approach the situation: -…
Aseprite is doing it. Compile for free or pay 20$ for the binary. I compiled once but the next time I just thought to hell with it and bought it on Steam )
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#83It won't, but I feel pretty damn good about my repo getting almost 900 stars (https://github.com/tanin47/tip).
The github stars is quite useful to break into big tech as well. But the value of it probably stops there.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#84I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Sure, the maintainers have no obligation to review and merge other people's PRs. But when this also applies to genuine high-quality community contributions, I feel like there must be some negative side effects. I'm sure this model works well for an established project like Fody that's already quite highly polished, but I'd be pretty sad if all (or even a significant subset) of…
There's an important qualification on that page:
> This process will depend on the issue quality, and the impact on the larger user base.
So, if I understand correctly, they won't automatically close issues if you aren't a subscriber, but the bar for the quality to keep it open is probably significantly higher.
I don't think that's a bad model. Although, I don' think it would scale well to every open source project having it's own subscription stream. But maybe if there were companies that maintained collections of projects?
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#85I have been thinking about closing my Github account and moving all my code to gitweb on one of my personal domains. I'm tired of the social/popularity contest aspect of Github and just want to write and publish code that I find interesting. I also want more control and I don't want my code used for AI research like co pilot. I thought about trying source hut, or something similar, but I feel it will end-up just like…
I use Fossil for self hosting code on my own domain, it's running on a fan-less PC with daily backups to the cloud using restic. It's just so nice, no social pressure and it works for me when the internet is down. I am currently in the process of setting up Concourse CI, it's a really nice config driven ci system.
Also, it doesn't have to be a "one or the other" thing, you can use both GitHub and self hosted for different things. That's what I do, GitHub is for work and things I want to be social, and my own hosting is for private code or code that I want to share in a "take it or leave it" kinda way without any of the social stuff.
I highly recommend hosting your own git/fossil/etc... system for yourself. Think of it like your own little place that you can setup exactly as you like.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#86As moderator of Reddit, now I question myself why I am doing it for free.
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Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#87I continue to think that the best model is the one adopted by Fody.NET[0]. It's open-source, on GitHub, under the MIT license, developed in the open, and with a voluntary OpenCollective. And if you open an issue or pull request and you're not on the OpenCollective, it's usually immediately closed, by policy. The result is a system that is paid enough to be excellent, excellent enough for most users not to need suppor…
Mostly would be bug reports I would like to see instead stay open, but depending on volume that doesn't scale.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#88> it made 93$ in 2.5 years > When was the last time you chose a value above 1$ > you're a saint for choosing 2.5$ > OMFG THIS SHIRT IS 20$ For the record: the dollar sign comes before the number. I'll take the downvotes, I just can't stand it. I did read the article, and my heart goes out to the author.
I would put the currency symbol after the number. Just like all other units.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#89Really good read, love everything you said and did - I can relate a lot.
Re: GitHub stars won't pay your rent (2020)
#90As moderator of Reddit, now I question myself why I am doing it for free.
Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare.