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I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Re: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Post by mr_puzzled »

That's amazing, best of luck. Will the revenue info be public? Are the current subscriptions close to replacing what you were making at your fulltime job? Hopefully sustainability is not far off and I look forward to the day when you can hire other prominent contributors such as emersion.

Re: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Post by kev009 »

It's funny seeing people from niche things you used to be into pop up in other places. When I was in my teens I did a lot of Ultima Online emulator stuff and have seen many of the server devs at places like Google in my career. I remember Drew's name from minecraft reverse engineering and development when I was in college.

Re: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

mr_puzzled wrote: post #2

That's amazing, best of luck. Will the revenue info be public? Are the current subscriptions close to replacing what you were making at your fulltime job? Hopefully sustainability is not far off and I look forward to the day when you can hire other prominent contributors such as emersion.

>That's amazing, best of luck.

Thank you!

>Will the revenue info be public?

Yes, I intend to publish quarterly reports, and I'm open with the financials whenever anyone asks. I generated this report just now for you: https://sr.ht/QOml.txt. This is combined with my donation income, which is already public: https://drewdevault.com/donate/

>Hopefully sustainability is not far off

I hope so too! The way I plan with these numbers is to assume yearly payments are added to the reserves and starts burning down immediately, then I do worst-case projections based on existing monthly donations with a churn factor built-in, then other projections assuming various degrees of growth based on historical numbers. The most pessimistic projections give me ~10 months and the more optimistic ones show sustainablity coming soonish.

>Are the current subscriptions close to replacing what you were making at your fulltime job?

No, but I hope it will be soon!

>I look forward to the day when you can hire other prominent contributors such as emersion.

Me too :)

Re: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Post by TkTech »

kev009 wrote: post #3

It's funny seeing people from niche things you used to be into pop up in other places. When I was in my teens I did a lot of Ultima Online emulator stuff and have seen many of the server devs at places like Google in my career. I remember Drew's name from minecraft reverse engineering and development when I was in college.

It's a small world, most #mcdevs regulars are still very active on HN.

Re: I'm going to work full-time on free software

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Post by andrepd »

kev009 wrote: post #3

It's funny seeing people from niche things you used to be into pop up in other places. When I was in my teens I did a lot of Ultima Online emulator stuff and have seen many of the server devs at places like Google in my career. I remember Drew's name from minecraft reverse engineering and development when I was in college.

I too recognise SirCmpwn from a niche place, the TI-84 scene ;)
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