Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if you had the money?

Posted by paydevs on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:25PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Would you work full-time on your project if you could pay your bills with it? Would you go part-time?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if y... by michaelcao on Monday October 03, 2022 @05:42AM (#33065293)

I personally think that I could choose to go part-time because it could take very long time to gain traction for OSS project.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if y... by paydevs on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:14AM (#33068656)

But in general you would if you had enough traction / income, right?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if y... by rurban on Monday October 03, 2022 @07:08AM (#33065883)

Sure. I actually did a few years until the money ran out.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if y... by paydevs on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:16AM (#33068683)

An did you try to monetize your project? And if so using which approaches? Donations, dual-licenses, paid support, etc.?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you work full-time on your OSS project if y... by rurban on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:01AM (#33076839)

Donations (I was even chosen as beta tester for GitHub sponsors, and flown in), and paid support.

But I had the wrong projects. Andrew Kelley's zig went off, mine not.

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