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Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:06AM (#12318997)
I am also good at explaining stuff, wrote a book on Go, made it open source because I haven't contributed anything to the FOSS community :)

0 income. Not the best business plan eh?

Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by amouat on Friday August 19, 2016 @06:45AM (#12319121)
You could probably keep it open-source but charge for the print copy and pay-what-you-want for the PDF.
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:13AM (#12319238)
That is a good idea, how do I the pay-what-you-want thing?

currently the book is on github and gitbooks, so I doubt if anyone would pay for the pdf :-)

Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by IanCal on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:40AM (#12319585)
There's a free version of Gumroad and you can sell things with a pay what you want scheme: https://help.gumroad.com/11164-Payments/pay-what-you-want-pr...

The premium version of Gumroad is $10 per month, and reduces the cut they take.

There's leanpub too, though I don't know if you can upload an already made pdf. Worth checking out though.

Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:00AM (#12319662)
leanpub allows you to get the data from github, my book is already on github, 950+ stars
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by IanCal on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:24PM (#12321702)
Oh that's great to know, thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by pc86 on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:09AM (#12319689)
I've bought PDFs where I already had all the information just to support the author. The hard part is letting the people who know about your book already know that they can buy a hard copy/support your work.
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:05PM (#12321013)
Well, all I can do is put upthe leanpub link to the book on the github page
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by cdnsteve on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:44AM (#12319358)
I think learnpub does this. Minimum price and suggested price.
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:00AM (#12319433)
Thanks :)

Started making a book on leanpub.

https://leanpub.com/antitextbookGo/

Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thepredestrian on Friday August 19, 2016 @09:36AM (#12319834)
This is awesome!
Re:Ask HN: Best passive income method for a solo developer? by thewhitetulip on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:01PM (#12320978)
Do you mean my book? Or the fact that one can self publish books? :)