G’day ☀️
Effectively all nostr devs do not have sufficient positive cash flow to pay their bills.
Some nostr devs receive generous grant money from e.g. Jack, HRF etc.
Very, very few receive VC money.
If you receive value from #FOSS and if you can afford it, support the projects you use. Subscription, one time donation, purchases, fiat, sats..
If you are already doing this - thank you 💜. Most devs shy away from asking for financial support.
The grants have been huge for getting nostr going but it can’t ever be the long term path to sustainability.
I think the easiest path is either a recurring in app payments for SaaS services. The SaaS model doesn’t need massive scale to sustain the providers.
People think that pro or paid features need to be really valuable to cause people to pay but that’s a mistake. It’s more like giving people something special so they’re appreciated or relieves an annoyance. Slack has tons of features for paid users but it’s really just being able to see and search your past conversations that causes people to pay. Plus things businesses need that individuals don’t, like more control and compliance.
We don’t need huge sums of money to support our current ecosystem, but we do need models that work with thousands of users per app instead of millions.
How are the bitcoin devs and FOSS Bitcoin wallet app devs getting cash flow???
Usually i see a note at the bottom of the app install page on F-Droid that says "buy me a coffee".
A few examples:
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft charges for some of his suite of apps e.g. nsecbunker
nostr:npub18kzz4lkdtc5n729kvfunxuz287uvu9f64ywhjz43ra482t2y5sks0mx5sz nostr wine is a subscription service paid relay
Nostr.build image hosting has a premium service
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s thus far receives one time donations, and plans to experiment with nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 subscriptions soon
What other ways are nostr apps monetizing?
#asknostr
Same. It is tough, as a creative person, to ask these things. You kind of only want to focus, on the work. 😪
