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Yes! Github's tip feature and patreon are great. Someone saves me a million hours of pain at my dayjob the least I can do is pay them a coffee.
Totally agree! ☕️
Will have to do that. I've mostly paid for freeware with donate button if i like the product.
I recently donated to the creator of myNoise. I use this site every night as a white noise machine for when I'm trying to sleep and it's amazing.
The other day I noticed a donation section of their site and decided I wanted to give them a little something. They wrote me back and were super thankful + incredibly friendly!
It was just a nice reminder that there are lots of cool people out there creating interesting things and giving them away to the world without expecting anything in return. 🙂
For sure! I love this project, too, and feel absolutely no friction donating to its further progress. It makes me feel great, actually. :))
Yes, I love myNoise! I've donated to that project too.
Wooohooo! Glad to hear you're a fan as well, Jason. 🙌
Such soothing sounds. 😌
I was a paid customer after using it once. I got hoooked! I found it so aiding in my work so i had to donate.
I've used GitHub's sponsor feature for a couple small donations since it came out.
The donation I will always remember (fondly - without any regrets 😆) was in early 2016 or so, when I tipped something like
0.1or0.2BTC to the creator of cyberciti.biz because of a couple of tutorials that saved my butt at my job of the time. Back then I'm sure it was less than $50 and the creator no longer accepts crypto tips, but it's always funny (to me) to look back at that tip.Yes of course! Most of my donation is on GitHub Sponsors, for discord.js (a Node module to create Discord bots), for Nuxt.js and recently again for Pi-hole ✨💚
I am planning to donate to packages when I create anything that makes me money. For now I'm creating open-source projects, so hopefully I'm adding some value this way (including reporting bugs and helping other users in issues).
Other than that, I remember buying coffee for OLauncher
Yep! The excellent Ismael Martinez teams-for-linux project, that made Teams actually work on my Debian desktop, and I'm still using it as the official Microsoft client has many UX issues..
I also make monthly donations to the Internet Archive, as there is nothing quite so annoying as losing information to the void!
Yup, I use a DNI/NIE generator almost daily at work, and decided to donate a bit to the project from my own money! He turned out to be from quite near where I live. That's the only time though...
multiple times! Their software saved me a lot of time. The least I can do is to donate something. I'm usually generous when the code works like a charm, no bug, great documentation.
I do. As a blogger myself, I understand and appreciate the work it takes to create something that helps other people.
For sure. I contribute monthly to the team that maintains Pug.js among others. They help me do I what do so I believe in paying it forward.
Yep.
Nope, not yet.
If I would have the capability, I certainly would! With the new GitHub sponsors feature is so easy to help Developers
and people do help, I already have one GitHub sponsor!!
Yes, but not enough!
Yes, though not that often. The last time I did the "buy me a coffee" type donation was for dopamine, a free music player.
Well yeah sure if you count buying GumRoad courses as donating then yes I have done it 😇
Haha! Oh that def counts in my book.
No. I would love to donate to developers, but I don't actually have spare money currently.
Aww dang! Well, that's definitely understandable. Ya gotta look out for yourself & loved ones first! Plenty of time later in life to donate to those who ya wanna donate to. Wishing you the best!
I paid for various coffees for some projects that taught me what it is or helped in my work. I think it's right!
I didn't and sometime feel sorry about it. I should.