[spacepinball]

Making a living on FOSS is hard, as you discovered.

I hope you succeed, of course. But since I have no good idea what your app is, except "a browser for developers" from the blog text, there is really no chance that I would ever search for this app, hear about it thru word of mouth, or eanything really that would make me end up testing your app.

Here's some other ways you could have tried to approach the situation:

- stop providing compiles, while selling access to the compiles on patreon or something. this way you can keep engagement from other developers and stay FOSS.

- offer commercial services around your app

[democracy]

Aseprite is doing it. Compile for free or pay 20$ for the binary. I compiled once but the next time I just thought to hell with it and bought it on Steam )