[qbasic_forever]

Congrats. I will be very curious to see how this (and other companies that are built around an open source frontend/web library) work on monetizing themselves. Are there any successful businesses in that space?

I worry it will be truly challenging without a big compromise to morals/openness/etc. I kind of wonder if stuff like htmx should just be funded with a big grant so it never needs to worry about selling out users for profits and operating income. Or at the very least that it learns to run extremely lean, to not chase expensive fads, and to build itself into something that can survive off a modest "please donate/buy some stickers/tshirts or my book" income stream. I hope we don't see the day that suddenly there's no download link on their site and it's replaced with a, "please contact our sales team for a demo!".

[recursivedoubts]

htmx is bsd licensed and I will not allow it to be anything but that (I may actually move to BSD-0, the two clauses are kind of dumb when you are talking about javascript)

i have a day job (a couple) so there is no financial pressure around it

i hope that it will be a long term public asset for developers