Matt Obee
Tim BrayLovely idea: https://openfreemap.org - best of luck to them.
Elias Mårtenson@timbray imagine that, someone realising that excessive infrastructure is costly.
Marco Rogers@timbray “We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.”
Sounds like a solid plan.
Fabrice Desré
Dan HugoDid I assert that you weren´t? (edit: optimistic… or did? grammar is tricky)
The founders of the project are deploying something useful, asking for donations, and hope to offer additional plans from what they have so far.
We´re working on a bunch of open source stuff with a similar mindset, optimism isn´t so bad. They seem to have it, it keeps us going… and it isn´t so easy to come by in some quarters.
@timbray @fabrice @danhugo I was being sarcastic. But I wasn't being snarky. I not suggesting I want them to fail. I just feel like people keep trying this when we have ample evidence of how unlikely it is to be sustainable. Maybe there's something more that I'm missing there. But simply being optimistic doesn't make it more likely to work.
Either way, I got the message. You all wanna hear cynicism. It's understandable. I'll try to keep it to myself.
I think monetizing (or asking for donations, or other) the deployment side is interesting as opposed to monetizing the development side. If they can´t keep the service running for lack of funds, the platform still exists.
This is our approach… develop open source for free, deploy and monetize. 🤞
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