GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by yboris on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:41AM (#20685711)

I'd love to see more people donating to charity. With my software, it's MIT open source, but pre-packaged it's pay what you want ($3.50 minimum) and $3.50 of every purchase goes to my favorite charity: Against Malaria Foundation.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

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Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by cbm-vic-20 on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @09:52AM (#20685806)

Vim pulls in over €60k/yr, and has generated more than €1m during its lifetime, for ICCF Holland.

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Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by freshbagels on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:03PM (#20687759)

I'm curious of the effectiveness of this model. Do you have any metrics on how many users have paid?

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Re:GitHub stars won’t pay your rent by yboris on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:00PM (#20688485)

Close to 800 paying customers since the launch about 1.5 years ago.

I've been documenting the donations as well on the blog: https://videohubapp.com/blog.html

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