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by raybb 976 days ago
Can you elaborate on charging for bug reports or feature requests?

Do you charge per report / request? Or is it a subscription (storygraph has this model)?

It seems like a great idea to lessen the workload and focus on people who actually might turn into customers.

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I will do either; it depends on what will work.

And that will only be for companies. For individuals and their personal projects, I'll respond when I have time, for free, for bug reports. (Not feature requests, obviously.) This is to build a clientele of people that might bring my software into their work. And it will reduce bugs.

Sorry to pry, but "will"? Does that mean the business model is yet to be validated? Not pushing back just curious - if it's worked out for you I'd be interested in hearing more, because it sounds like a business model I could adopt for a FOSS project I'm working on.
Correct. Sorry.

That's why I have four ways to try to make money.

Best of luck!