Each time I think about an open source project I realize a couple of things:

1. How can this source code ever turn into a revenue generating effort?

2. How can I stay motivated to work past 6 month of effort.

Both those thoughts always make me pause and really not progress.

As an example. I look at #nostr clients as an example and suspect no one would pay so embedded ads are the only possible stream of revenue.

I have looked at trading bots, but again don’t see a market that would sustain a revenue stream.

So I’ve looked at projects like coin market cap and coin gecko and while both have paid subscriptions I suspect adcents is all that drives revenue.

I am adamantly opposed to generating revenue off ads but see no other model

Without a revenue stream how to stay motivated.

Thoughts?