Going Full Time on Open Source
21 hours ago
- #sustainability
- #open-source
- #developer-tools
- The author built and maintains developer tools like mise, which has over 27k stars on GitHub and is a top Homebrew formula.
- Due to the growing workload, they left their job at Figma to work full-time on open source through their company, en.dev.
- Current income from ads and GitHub Sponsors is insufficient, so they introduced membership and sponsorship tiers for individuals and companies.
- Consulting services are offered part-time for companies needing help with mise, with future plans to develop paid services.