alt Hacker NewsI’ve made quite popular FOSS dev tools and FOSS gaming companion tools. I don’t nag for donations in any case. Rather ironically, I found that dev tools generated close to zero donations while gaming companion tools generated decent donations (still nowhere close to time I put in if I go by consulting rate, but that wasn’t the goal). Devs just take other devs’ free work for granted. And bitch the most when you try to make money off free work too (not that I ever added or will add ads to any of my hobby work).
Exactly. The cultists are the loudest and at the same time wonder why Linux UI/UX and its apps is still subpar and why MacOS, where asking money for stuff is normal, has quite decent tooling that make your life much easier.
At the end of the day the small amounts are the real thank you and biggest driver for the work you put into something.