Gladys Project – Creating an open-source home assistant (opens in new tab)

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26 pointspierregillesl7y ago11 comments

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I wish you the best of luck. I'm also using Patreon to sponsor my work on open source https://www.patreon.com/microhq. It's a great platform to enable this opportunity. I hope you receive more contributions to help you do it full time!

pierregilleslOP7y ago

Wow, I'm impressed by your Patreon! Congrats :)

chuhnk7y ago

Cheers! If you build something of value people will pay for your efforts as long as you give them a way to :)

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wilsonnb27y ago

I like the project itself but the emojis seem like an odd choice. Including them in a document that's intended to get people to pay you money seems unprofessional to me.

I could be totally wrong about that though, I don't use Patreon so I'm not sure what a page would usually look like. To be honest I've never really understood the culture or appeal of the whole Youtube/Podcasts/Patreon/Internet celebrities thing.

matte_black7y ago

Dead wrong. Emojis make copy more personable and increase conversions.

pierregilleslOP7y ago

Exactly that's the goal

It's a community project, not a contract :) So I try to be as close as possible from my community

nestorD7y ago

Good luck for your project. Note that there is also Mycroft the Open Source Virtual assistant : https://mycroft.ai/

choxi7y ago

Are there many developers who make a living off of donations to their open source work? Curious about whether it's viable to build a career off of open source.

bckmn7y ago

I've been rolling an idea around my head to interview and write up stories on some of these people. Here are some that fit (or come close to fitting) your description that I've been talking to:

- https://sindresorhus.com - https://github.com/slact - https://www.patreon.com/microhq - https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/master/index.js

wilsonnb27y ago

No, there aren't many. There are some living off of donations, but it's a very small number. Not something that I would consider a viable career option because it requires too much luck.

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chuhnk7y ago

pierregilleslOP7y ago

Wow, I'm impressed by your Patreon! Congrats :)

chuhnk7y ago

Cheers! If you build something of value people will pay for your efforts as long as you give them a way to :)

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wilsonnb27y ago

I like the project itself but the emojis seem like an odd choice. Including them in a document that's intended to get people to pay you money seems unprofessional to me.

matte_black7y ago

Dead wrong. Emojis make copy more personable and increase conversions.

pierregilleslOP7y ago

Exactly that's the goal

It's a community project, not a contract :) So I try to be as close as possible from my community

nestorD7y ago

Good luck for your project. Note that there is also Mycroft the Open Source Virtual assistant : https://mycroft.ai/

choxi7y ago

Are there many developers who make a living off of donations to their open source work? Curious about whether it's viable to build a career off of open source.

bckmn7y ago

I've been rolling an idea around my head to interview and write up stories on some of these people. Here are some that fit (or come close to fitting) your description that I've been talking to:

- https://sindresorhus.com - https://github.com/slact - https://www.patreon.com/microhq - https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/master/index.js

wilsonnb27y ago

No, there aren't many. There are some living off of donations, but it's a very small number. Not something that I would consider a viable career option because it requires too much luck.

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