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by conta 2787 days ago
I have an open-source app called stretchly (https://github.com/hovancik/stretchly) and I allow people to support it via paypal or patreon.

I ask people to support me by becoming my patron on Patreon as Menu item. Right now it brings me 11$/month (https://www.patreon.com/hovancik) and it goes up and down. I could do better by engaging more with people, I guess (in past some people donated when I fixed their issue very quickly).

Over time, some people also donated on paypal (5-15$ a time).

I am thinking to add "premium" features: users can access them after auth via patreon or github (if they contributed).

Premium features will be just some sugar, nothing that normal user could not do.

I also have newsletter where I try to bring some app related stuff that people might enjoy.

some tips:

- watch for mentions of your app on social media and interact

- ask for support, if people like your app they will help

- being open-source also helps

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Nice project, conta! I just added it to awesome-humane-tech [0] in the Health section.

[0] https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech

Thanks a lot!