[ex-aws-dude]

And what was your return on investment?

[simonw]

As I commented elsewhere, I'm still bad at making money from my open source work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794#48298909

(I have a feeling if I could say "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!" people would find a way to say that didn't mean anything anyway, because how can I prove I wouldn't have made those sales writing it by hand?)

[brazukadev]

> "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!"

Given the audience you are reaching, that is actually the expectation. Github stars is not a great metric.