Nice work. It sounds like you’re young, so you should know that basically no one makes a living from sponsor-based open source software, and even industry luminaries make chump change from their work.
Notably, and I won’t name who, there have been recent blog articles posted here written by some industry leaders basically e-begging and it’s just the weirdest, saddest thing.
As someone else who works in this space and has released internationally used free and open source software, if you want to make money off of your work, sell it, and ignore the class of developers who get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free.
You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN. Just a heads up from one experienced guy to a younger developer.
andai 24 minutes ago [-]
They who must must not be named actually get a decent income e-begging, they just got used to living in San Francisco.
qweqwe14 4 hours ago [-]
Why the downvotes? All of this is correct
mightyham 3 hours ago [-]
Probably because they could easily have given the same advice without needing to call people on hn that encourage and support open source software "low-class".
unclad5968 3 hours ago [-]
> developers who get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free
> encourage and support open source software
These two statements are not about the same group of people. It's reasonably safe to assume all people that get mad about proprietary software support OSS, but not all supporters of OSS get mad when people sell their software.
Everything I do I license as public domain. I would also encourage OP to sell his software if he'd like to make money from it, albeit maybe some different software.
mightyham 2 hours ago [-]
When the GP says "You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN", I interpret that as them disparaging basically anyone who supports open source, since I believe there are not many people on HN that are overly emotional about the existence of closed source software.
2 hours ago [-]
krapp 3 hours ago [-]
>Why the downvotes?
Probably for calling open source developers sad low-class beggars. Also probably for the presumption that OP should be trying to hustle an income from a fork of an open source project that no one would be willing to pay for anyway, because there's no market for 2d renderers. They're all already free.
It isn't only crass, it's stupid and crass.
jmull 28 minutes ago [-]
Eh, you might want to know what you’re talking about before calling people stupid. E.g., OP says with their repo, “ Hi everyone, I'm nsix, an indie game developer and open source contributor trying to make a living from my work.”
Perhaps the previous poster isn’t presuming, and simply read the repo landing page.
Not to mention, a plain reading of the comment makes it clear they are calling the people who “get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free” low-class, and not open-source developers. And, of course, the people referred to a low-class are not the same as the ones referred to as begging.
I would assume you know these things and are intentionally trolling. Just calling out the insincere bad behavior for the sake of others who might get trolled by your comment.
isjsixjeidjei 3 hours ago [-]
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matt-p 4 hours ago [-]
Cool work!
torusle 3 hours ago [-]
Nice Ai prompting, bro..
Might want to share your harness /s
andai 22 minutes ago [-]
I know you're being sarcastic but I think some people may find this interesting:
I made one based on this tutorial (about 50 lines), which is about 8x faster and cheaper for small tasks in my experience. I highly recommend the learning experience.
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I personally think this is better.
Notably, and I won’t name who, there have been recent blog articles posted here written by some industry leaders basically e-begging and it’s just the weirdest, saddest thing.
As someone else who works in this space and has released internationally used free and open source software, if you want to make money off of your work, sell it, and ignore the class of developers who get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free.
You’ll talk to a whole lot of low class people like that on HN. Just a heads up from one experienced guy to a younger developer.
> encourage and support open source software
These two statements are not about the same group of people. It's reasonably safe to assume all people that get mad about proprietary software support OSS, but not all supporters of OSS get mad when people sell their software.
Everything I do I license as public domain. I would also encourage OP to sell his software if he'd like to make money from it, albeit maybe some different software.
Probably for calling open source developers sad low-class beggars. Also probably for the presumption that OP should be trying to hustle an income from a fork of an open source project that no one would be willing to pay for anyway, because there's no market for 2d renderers. They're all already free.
It isn't only crass, it's stupid and crass.
Perhaps the previous poster isn’t presuming, and simply read the repo landing page.
Not to mention, a plain reading of the comment makes it clear they are calling the people who “get mad that you don’t give away all of your hard work for free” low-class, and not open-source developers. And, of course, the people referred to a low-class are not the same as the ones referred to as begging.
I would assume you know these things and are intentionally trolling. Just calling out the insincere bad behavior for the sake of others who might get trolled by your comment.
Might want to share your harness /s
https://minimal-agent.com/
I made one based on this tutorial (about 50 lines), which is about 8x faster and cheaper for small tasks in my experience. I highly recommend the learning experience.