Someone just installed your library.
1,204,381downloads this month
You have one finite resource.
Tonight
3 hours 12 minutes
7:48 pm
40 min
30 min
your job tomorrow8:00 am
0 minutes left.
downloads this month
The software is still free.
Your time wasn't.
The value leaves the building. The cost stays in one person's evenings.
What would make this sustainable?
Not gratitude. Gratitude has no units. A number, per year, for one library that a million people installed this month. Pick one and see what it buys.
Maintainers who can afford to keep maintaining.
Not maintainers who are thanked. Not maintainers who are celebrated once a year in a keynote. Maintainers whose evenings are their own because the thing the rest of us depend on is paid for.
Some balance sheets run on other people's weekends.
Some things are worth building.
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