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I did quit my job to work on open source. One of my project is Nostria, a Nostr app and service provider. If I can reach 1500 paid subscribers I'd be able to sustain this app and service for as long as people want it. It's a challenge though to get there, have used a lot of my savings, did a pre-seed fund raising that was successful, which I'm very grateful for. Yet it takes time and dedication, which I got, but eventually the money runs out. Funding is an issue for a lot of open source, yet finding good business models for them shouldn't be that hard. Many projects only need enough to sustain the developers, not make a lot of extra profits. Truly hope that Nostria will be successful in the long run, it's shaping up to be a very nice Nostr app and the goal is to reach new user adoption.

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dangershony 2 months ago

This is a very good point, and honestly it shouldn't be that hard to get such a number of subscribers, that will be a sustainable model. With v2 of angor we'll bring subscriptions, but I believe that's already available on getalby (also btcpay will soon bring subscriptions)

npub1cgmk...tnyr 2 months ago

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CR45H 0V3RR1D3 🛡️ 2 months ago

Subscriptions are fine as long as the customer feels like they are getting something for it or they realize there is a constant cost to the developer that needs to be covered. For example, if your app relies on a server, someone is going to have to pay for the server, and while some developers eat the cost themselves, they shouldn’t be expected to. What people don’t want, is to pay for a subscription that offers nothing other than the continual use of features you already paid for. There are quite a few mastodon clients that do this and it pisses me off.

SondreB 🛡️ 2 months ago

↩ replying to CR45H 0V3RR1D3

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the value proposition for Premium has to be there and it's something being worked on. Nostria MVP was finalized end of August, after that focused on quality improvements and many new features. The app and service needs to reach a certain point before I want to start pushing for user adoption. That day is coming close very soon 💜