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by Sir_Cmpwn 2711 days ago
>That's amazing, best of luck.

Thank you!

>Will the revenue info be public?

Yes, I intend to publish quarterly reports, and I'm open with the financials whenever anyone asks. I generated this report just now for you: https://sr.ht/QOml.txt. This is combined with my donation income, which is already public: https://drewdevault.com/donate/

>Hopefully sustainability is not far off

I hope so too! The way I plan with these numbers is to assume yearly payments are added to the reserves and starts burning down immediately, then I do worst-case projections based on existing monthly donations with a churn factor built-in, then other projections assuming various degrees of growth based on historical numbers. The most pessimistic projections give me ~10 months and the more optimistic ones show sustainablity coming soonish.

>Are the current subscriptions close to replacing what you were making at your fulltime job?

No, but I hope it will be soon!

>I look forward to the day when you can hire other prominent contributors such as emersion.

Me too :)