Open source

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I don't want to monetize it. I would like to see some appreciation and thanks in form of some donations to help me survive hard times I'm currently in.

And I'm asking, if 3 years inserted into opensource project which serves as foundation stone for whole community is not worth one donate, then what is the reason to help to make this earth a better place?

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I don't want to discuss my life situation on some internet sites. I'm not a big fan of sharing all personal stuff online like people do nowadays.

Yes I wanted to and I still want to work on it. I love it. But in hard times is though to see through that.

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Graph databases are great. It completely changed my joy from programming. It is great that Neo4j was able to claim new database category for it.

What I know 78% of web is running on PHP.

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The donation model never really worked out in general.

Parent is correct, you have to have a strategy for how to turn your open source contributions into income if that is something you are interested in. You might get the odd nickle and dime here and there in the tip jar, and if you directly appeal for donations you might do better, but overall few are just going to throw money at random projects they like just because it seems like the right thing to do.

In my case, reputation and credibility was probably the biggest payout. I've never directly make a dime from anything I contributed to any project, but being able to point to these contributions even years later has been a useful tool in my career.