anondon

For those who have a personal blog related to tech, how much traffic does it receive per month?

If you have any stats related to your to the traffic patterns of your blog, feel free to share.

How much traffic does your blog receive when it makes the front page of HN?

How much traffic does your blog receive when it receives substantial attention on one the tech/programming related subreddits?

How many users as a percentage have adblockers enabled?

Would tech related blogging and including ads from google adsense make money considering tech/programming related content is a sort of niche and also presumably a lot of users have adblockers?

Previous discussions(did not receive much atention)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13130868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12863513

So I was reading Richard Stallman's blog on why you should not use google/uber/apple/twitter etc and I understand his reasoning. But what I don't understand is how would one go about building a startup or business that develops and distributes free software only and make good money doing so?

For example, would it be possible to build a free software version of uber/twitter/facebook etc? How would that work?

By removing all restrictions on the software, what is the incentive to not pirate the software? The GPL can be enforced, but that is clearly not practical especially outside the US.