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6 points Forgret | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.217s | source

Hi, I'm a student developer and I wanted to get paid right now, and I heard that you can get paid through sponsors on GitHub, but I'm wondering what the chances are that people will do it? Not everyone wants to spend money.

Please share your opinion and tell me who may have managed to get money this way?

1. bruce511 ◴[] No.45080823[source]
The amount of money you will get via donations will be either zero, or a rounding error from zero.

Donations is not a business model.

As you are a student, you may gain other benefits though. All programmers go through 3 stages;

1) you program to prove to yourself that you can. 2) you program to prove yo others that you can 3) you program because your output has value. (Ie you program for money.)

Indicentally there are lots of employed programmers who get stuck at level 2. They're forever doing work that adds no value, simply because they want to prove they can.

99% of Open Source has no value, but can be a valuable way to demonstrate your ability.