matthewmueller / joy

A delightful Go to Javascript compiler (ON HOLD)
https://mat.tm/joy
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Paying the bills #52

Open matthewmueller opened 6 years ago

matthewmueller commented 6 years ago

This is a placeholder issue for all things related to self-sustainability.

Right now Joy was entirely funded and developed by me. As an independent developer with limited resources, I can only take this project so far on my own. The only way for this project to reach it’s full potential is for Joy to become community-driven and financially self-sustainable.

If you guys have ideas on how to get there, please let me know!

Gys commented 6 years ago

Why didn't you put your efforts into gopherjs ?

ilackarms commented 6 years ago

i'm curious how this project is different from GopherJS (other than that it produces readable code). How do you handle things like goroutines and channels?

tj commented 6 years ago

@Gys just my opinion, but sometimes it's easier to start from scratch than it is to work with an existing unfamiliar codebase with (slightly) different goals

FlorianUekermann commented 6 years ago

Have you considered using Patreon or a similar service?

(the GopherJS comments seem a bit off topic here. I opened issue #56)

matthewmueller commented 6 years ago

thanks @FlorianUekermann, let's continue the Gopher discussion there

Regarding Patreon, not yet! But I'm definitely open to it. Trying to enumerate the options ☺️

emmaly commented 6 years ago

Provide a reliable and automated means for me to donate money on a regular interval and I'll happily do so.

FlorianUekermann commented 6 years ago

Donation addresses for the most popular cryptocurrencies may also help. With 2 addresses (bitcoin & ethereum) you could cover the current top 3 (btc, eth, bch).

laktek commented 6 years ago

I'd say look into features that'd matter to enterprise customers (integrations with CI tools?). Mike Perham's Sidekiq comes to mind as a good example of executing this strategy https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/016-mike-perham-of-sidekiq