Has your friend blogged about this approach? I'd be super interested to hear more!
I'm one of those annoying people with a donate button. Despite my project's size (~10.5k stars on Github), it pulls down only about $60/month. While awesome, and I'm legit thankful for the people who back open source, it's obviously not yet at an amount where I could devote my time to open source entirely or even part time (which would be the dream!).
My recent minor release took about 45 hours to prepare, then another 8 for a quick followup tacking on some additional functionality. Which is to say, open source gets me about $1/hr ^_^
I'm one of those annoying people with a donate button. Despite my project's size (~10.5k stars on Github), it pulls down only about $60/month. While awesome, and I'm legit thankful for the people who back open source, it's obviously not yet at an amount where I could devote my time to open source entirely or even part time (which would be the dream!).
My recent minor release took about 45 hours to prepare, then another 8 for a quick followup tacking on some additional functionality. Which is to say, open source gets me about $1/hr ^_^