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by viandante 5547 days ago
Hi,

it is difficult to give good advices without some data. As first thing, I would suggest to honestly ask your "customers" what would they pay for.

Maybe you can propose some new features and bug fixes only when you reach a certain ammount of donations (I mean, this is kind of the way the Diaspora guys made their money). If your target is developers, then to ask them money you may want to tell them how much time would they save with your new module or version. If a developer understands your new module would save him 3 hours of work, why shouldn't he pay for, let's say, as much as 1 hr of work is worth for him?

Finally, from my point of view, developers are easily the most price sensitive. So, another point would be: would it be possible to find another audience? Let's say small companies who may enjoy having their own job board?