Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon?

Re:Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Spo... by 1_player on Saturday May 08, 2021 @05:57AM (#27085576)

Is it really? The guy is making a living thanks to his own personal project and it's bad he's not a millionaire, especially since you note his revenue might not be limited to his Patreon only?

He might earn much more in the golden handcuffs of a FAANG, but his is a pretty incredible scenario by all metrics, especially if you consider the reality of the whole job market, not the SV niche making millions a year working at Google & co.

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Re:Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Spo... by kohanz on Saturday May 08, 2021 @07:28AM (#27086126)

I suppose it depends on how you look at it.

Is it a good living? Yes. Is it commensurate with the value Evan has helped create through Vue.js? Not even close.

But that's kind of the deal with open source, isn't it?

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Re:Ask HN: Any programmers making a living off of GitHub Spo... by cosmodisk on Saturday May 08, 2021 @01:31PM (#27089142)

Don't get me wrong, I don't equate $150K to peanuts, far from it,but my point is that if a project of such success brings this much,what chances people have with smaller projects that are good but nowhere near to Vue JS popularity.

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