How much did your open-source project bring?

littleguga2015-10-02 19:27:46

Monetization

littleguga, 2015-10-02 19:27:46

Interested in real experience .
How much did your project bring, which you distributed for free, but left messages about the opportunity to donate?
Example answer: I wrote such and such a plugin for jquery, they donated $ 1 in a year.
I wrote a library for arduino and such and such a board, they donated $ 1000 in a month.
Thanks in advance for your reply!

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9 answer(s)

Alex K, 2015-10-03
@littleguga

Even before the popularity of Open-Source, in 2004 I was making free software (anti-spam tools). More than a million users around the world, a cloud of publications in different publications, high ratings and reviews. He asked for a donation, even sent a boxed edition with bonuses to those who supported it. It didn't work. Around $600 only. Adsense + affiliate links on the page after uninstall brought many, many, many times more. True, adsense had just appeared then, and in the deficit of advertising sites, an extremely high CTR and $2.5-$3 clicks were in the order of things.

leventov, 2015-10-03
@leventov

Forget about dreams to make money on donations. Dot. Open source + sell support is also a half-life model.
Do open source + copyleft license (eg Gpl) + sale of licenses for the Enterprise (google license exceptions), or open source + paid proprietary add-ons, or not open source at all from the very beginning.

Alexander Tikhonov, 2015-10-02
@tikhonov666

I think those who participate in open-source projects primarily do it for the sake of an idea and / or experience. The material component is not the main thing here.

Nikolay Talanov, 2015-10-04
@Ronnie_Gardocki

Thinking about donation is a bad business.
If you are very interested in returns from open source, then you need to think about image returns and similar things. That is + fame / coolness / skill. If you want to make some kind of libu that will theoretically be competitive - they drank. Then at the interview in spherical Google it will be counted.

Sergey, 2015-10-03
@zenden2k

I generally do not accept donations. Making free software for donations is nonsense and hypocrisy.

Dmitry, 2015-10-08
@Dit81

I almost always try to support OpenSource projects that are interesting to me... Maybe I don't understand something?? I just make applications and modules/libraries for myself, but I work for a good salary. That is why I try to support interesting projects.

trevoga_su, 2016-03-11
@trevoga_su

sold links to sape.ru from the site tic = 900
for several years withdrew 2,000,000 rubles

Nikolai Kovalev, 2015-10-03
@nkmail

Some losses in the form of personal man-hours.

Vladimir Kozhin, 2015-10-08
@affka

jii framework - 1050 rubles for 5 months%)