Pretty much all of my open source. It’s not literally zero, but over the whole time I made as much from open source as I make in two hours in my regular job.
So yeah, two hours paid out of over a decade of open source is basically $0.
I don’t make any ground breaking stuff, so I don’t expect to live off of it, still would be nice to buy a lunch once a month from stuff thousands of developers use.
I grow algae for carbon capture, because exetential crisis. This year I got the process down and pulled 4 lbs atmospheric CO2 into 1lb solid carbon. Can’t grow much in the winter but will restart in the spring.
Have a YouTube but their algorithm hates eco projects that aren’t scams or whackadoodle science.
I’ve been writing free D&D homebrew for over 10 years. I occasionally use it in my own games and some other people in the community do use it, but it’s rare and generally thankless. If anyone wants to poke a look, here’s two examples:
- Witch class (5e24)
- Koradi (plantfolk) race (5e14 & 5e24)
Warhammer 40K.
There is no remuneration amongst the stars.
Lemmying. Lord I wish I got a pound per meme
I have a podcast called Almost Plausible that I make with a couple of friends. We take an ordinary object (like a pillow, or a zipper, or a ceiling fan) and we create a movie plot based on that object.
We’ve been doing the show for nearly 4 years now. It’s fun to make, but it takes up a fair amount of my time. For me, a “reward” would just be more listeners. That would feel very validating.
Factorio
If I got even 0.001% of what my factories produce every day, I’d be able to immediately end supply scarcity for the entire world. All powered entirely by solar energy.
my twitch channel
If you have 25 viewers on twitch, you’re in the 1% of streamers.
Parenting
Constructed Languages. Not for nothing did JRR Tolkien call it a secret vice. It’s such a lonely hobby. You can enjoy the work of a chef or an artist or a musician even if you yourself aren’t a chef or an artist or a musician, but nobody’s going to complement the elegance of your conlang’s noun inflection system.
It’s bitterly ironic that the whole point of a language is to communicate, but the vast majority of conlangs will never be uttered by anyone other than their creators, and rather badly even then.
I don’t want to get paid for my hobbies because they wouldn’t be hobbies anymore, but it would be nice to get more than just a smile and nod from people outside the hobby now and then.
Since it seems people are sharing the fruits of their labor as well, here’s my most complete conlang: https://www.frathwiki.com/Commonthroat
I made a Halloween mask this year from start to finish. The entire process took 2 months of work but it paid off in a way that if i can get faster at it i might try to sell something one day at a convention 😁👍
Next step in the process is learning about Vacuum Forming! Then we’ll really be in business.
Mask in question:
That looks just like my dad
Oof
I used to make a lot of Garry’s Mod animations. One such one…
Never did sign my channel up for monetization - I didn’t like the patterns YouTube pushed you into and each animation usually took me many months. You can kind of see on my channel I tended to get distracted by whatever was a current trend. I’m trying one more that took me the better part of this year.
A lot of people remark that “I must really enjoy animating” - I do enjoy the result, but it’s a lot of work and takes willpower to push myself into another 3-hour session of laborious posing to get a scene in my mind on the screen just right. I also really hope for the animations to garner attention, even if just to make someone’s day better.
If someone pays me to play music before I die, it’ll feel like mission accomplished.
I have a cool 5 Canadian dollars.
Blender at one point, but ive given up on the pipedream as ive put barely over a year in, maybe in 3 more
Went from trying to make money somehow back to just dickin around trying to learn how everything works, 3d just doesnt seem to pay all that well even for ppl with experience, entry level it jobs are nowhere to be found where i moved back home but I may be able to work at a place opening soon, for now I train ai to train myself out of a job, finally getting steady work there after two years of maybe an hour of work a month popping up, as I didnt even realize there were multiple platforms to sign up for, couldve been making money sooner.
Feelin extra greatful for my parents tho, got to just learn blender and pursue other hobbies for a year, mightve been more valuable than working everyday as I no longer have the brain capacity to do tutorials after working for 6-8 hours, dont even want to read comics after and now that I have money, im spending it on distractions like gaming and not potentially productive sht like blender (lol its free). Fk it tho I want a legion go s to play on while shit renders.
im a hobby hopper, started with flash or something, just been jumping program to program and forgetting about them ever since
I’ve spent some 5 hours just today documenting and writing instructions on some IT tools for my collective. One person said its cool though, so not bad.
The ability to write clear documentation is an invaluable skill. So many open source projects have terrible docs. The docs are probably written by the devs themselves, who perhaps don’t realize that end users won’t have the intimate knowledge of the thing they’re documenting as they do, so they leave a lot unsaid that should really be explicit.
In IT, at least in networking, systems quickly become black boxes even to the person that designed it, and good docs are just as useful to the person writing them.
You sir are a champion. So few of us do documentation and wonder why we have to fix the same problems over and over.
You deserve a smooch 😘
unsolicited comradery
Hey, u wanna share some means of reproduction?
