Show me how to pay the rent by doing that on a FOSS platform (all our own code is FOSS, btw) and making everyday things for everyday people. https://twitter.com/CaptainKurtis/status/785754620895244288 …
I noted the same thing earlier. So what’s your alternative. We’re not discussing whether the current system is shit or not.
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u can charge users for free software. some pay in advance like w/
@mailpileteam. or court private donors & get good at grantwriting. -
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@MailpileTeam is not (yet) a success story. The project lives on because I pay for it myself. -
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@CaptainKurtis@aral I still have faith@MailpileTeam can become sustainable, but only w/ a very small team. Doubt I'll recoup investment. -
wut's ur funding strategy moving forward?
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Ship it! Then continue soliciting donations, consider value-added services, derived products, partnerships, support.
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Shipping is proving to be the hard part; dev takes time, is complex and we suck at meeting deadlines. No grants so far.
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So our (well, my) strategy has been to stay small, self-fund. Slows everything down, but is low risk. 1.0 will happen.
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Best of luck. Rooting for you :) +
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