← Back to context Comment by ex-aws-dude 21 hours ago And what was your return on investment? 2 comments ex-aws-dude Reply simonw 21 hours ago As I commented elsewhere, I'm still bad at making money from my open source work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794#48298909(I have a feeling if I could say "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!" people would find a way to say that didn't mean anything anyway, because how can I prove I wouldn't have made those sales writing it by hand?) brazukadev 16 hours ago > "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!"Given the audience you are reaching, that is actually the expectation. Github stars is not a great metric.
simonw 21 hours ago As I commented elsewhere, I'm still bad at making money from my open source work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794#48298909(I have a feeling if I could say "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!" people would find a way to say that didn't mean anything anyway, because how can I prove I wouldn't have made those sales writing it by hand?) brazukadev 16 hours ago > "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!"Given the audience you are reaching, that is actually the expectation. Github stars is not a great metric.
brazukadev 16 hours ago > "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!"Given the audience you are reaching, that is actually the expectation. Github stars is not a great metric.
As I commented elsewhere, I'm still bad at making money from my open source work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296794#48298909
(I have a feeling if I could say "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!" people would find a way to say that didn't mean anything anyway, because how can I prove I wouldn't have made those sales writing it by hand?)
> "and I closed $2m in sales with the software I wrote!"
Given the audience you are reaching, that is actually the expectation. Github stars is not a great metric.