see shy jo on Nostr: A career in free software is a succession of hurdles. How to do something new and ...

A career in free software is a succession of hurdles. How to do something new and worthwhile? How to make any income while developing it at all? How to maintain your independant vision when working on it for hire? How to deal with burn-out? How to grow a project to be more than a one developer affair? And on and on.

How does a free software project keep paying the bills once it's feature complete? Maybe I am starting to get a glimpse of an answer.

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/the_twenty-fifth_year_of_my_free_software_career/