I had a great amount of fun working on my debug visualizer extension for vscode that was trending on hn a couple of weeks ago. And on other open source extensions and projects. I felt visionary and proud. That is what I want to do.

But it pays for nothing. I make more money as a street musician than with my open source projects that have more than 100k users. But I got paid a lot for improving some online gambling site. This is how it is.