[franciscop]

I have released dozens of packages reaching hundreds of thousands of people and, according to SO, helped devs millions of times in different ways. In total I have been donated the amount of $10 (lifetime). I am considering different ways of making revenue now from my side projects since it is not sustainable.

I even had a horrifying experience when someone pretended he was donating only to get me to use his cryptocrap. What a f* waste of time that was.

Probably the only ones who can make it out of donations are the best known devs in their fields like Sindre Sorhus [1]. Others, while also really well known, have gone the open-source-but-pay-for-pro route like TJ [2] and John O'Nolan [3]. Thinking you can live purely of passive donations is, at best, naive.

Here are the statistics of 30k users and 80k page views on my latest project that netted those $10: https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/955782847230431232

[1] https://www.patreon.com/sindresorhus

[2] https://github.com/apex/up#pro-features

[3] https://ghost.org/pricing/