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0 pointskodablah7y ago0 comments

> How could decentralized applications/services be sustainable funded? If not advertising, how?

How any other open source is funded (e.g. corporate/individual donations, grants, crowdsourcing, support, ancillary products, etc). I don't believe, at least for an MVP, that much funding is needed compared the scope of some of the successfully funded open source projects that exist.

> Most importantly, why would users care about decentralized vs centralized?

They wouldn't. And ideally, beyond the annoying hoops on initial versions (e.g. discovery/identity), they shouldn't. Your software needs to win on features. A self-hosted, subscribable Reddit clone w/ chat would be a very good start.

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the_duke7y ago

Please, show me a list of self-sustaining open source projects that cover developer time and administrative overhead just in donations.

The only one I can think of right now would be Font Awesome 5 (via Kickstarter), which already was a very popular product with big name recognition and had a professionally run Kickstarter.

Pretty much ever open source project only survives because developers donate their own time, or companies allow their developers to do so.

Drdrdrq7y ago

> The only one I can think of right now would be Font Awesome 5 (via Kickstarter),...

And even there, imho Bob (iirc) from the video was right - I hate font awesome 5, and always install either version 4 or "fork awesome" in my projects.

the_duke7y ago

Why so?

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astazangasta7y ago

Those, then, would seem to be valid ways to organize such a project. Lord knows there is more than enough volunteer time available to achieve any project - if properly organized.

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the_duke7y ago

Please, show me a list of self-sustaining open source projects that cover developer time and administrative overhead just in donations.

The only one I can think of right now would be Font Awesome 5 (via Kickstarter), which already was a very popular product with big name recognition and had a professionally run Kickstarter.

Pretty much ever open source project only survives because developers donate their own time, or companies allow their developers to do so.

Drdrdrq7y ago

> The only one I can think of right now would be Font Awesome 5 (via Kickstarter),...

And even there, imho Bob (iirc) from the video was right - I hate font awesome 5, and always install either version 4 or "fork awesome" in my projects.

the_duke7y ago

Why so?

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astazangasta7y ago

Those, then, would seem to be valid ways to organize such a project. Lord knows there is more than enough volunteer time available to achieve any project - if properly organized.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse