SvenAndersson

I've been developing (~5 months) a cross-platform (OSX, Win and Linux) desktop application, as an after-work-hobby-project, that is soon nearing alpha state.

Up until now I have mostly kept on coding since it's something I personally have a need for, and it's a fun project, but I also believe there is clique of other people that would find it useful as well. I would love to have other people use it, but I don't think there is enough of a business there to actually sell it, at least in its current form. [1]

I like the "hobbyish sharewarey business" of how Sublime Text started out, and I think my application cater to much of the same audience. But I feel I would not be able to give support or have time to go all in on this project at this stage, having a real job as well.

What are my options to distribute my software, even at an early stage (alpha/beta), without going full business and still be a at least a bit profitable?

Donation-ware? Patreon? Would love some data!

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[1] There are other both big and small company alternatives, there are also some open source (imho shitty) alternatives. The closed source alternatives come in both subscription and one-time-license models. These alternatives also have much more features of course (but so does Visual Studio compared to Sublime Text I guess... :-) ).