• ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.org
    56·
    10 days ago

    I’m an amateur programmer at best, and the height of my programming “career” was when my friend told me their IT was using my tool internally. It has a few hundred stars on GitHub now, so not too bad. Sad thing is that I have other projects that I actually am passionate about, but they don’t get much love.

  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
    40·
    10 days ago

    My project has been used by random companies at some point, never again, I can’t recommend it to anyone. At first it was nice to have my stuff getting real world use but the never ending issues asking for new features and pressure to keep everything up to date was exhausting. It was a relief to archive it, never again.

    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
      162·
      10 days ago

      On the other hand, once it gets used and depended upon by several companies, you could have them in your hands. Screw them over, break their shit. Or… start charging? Maybe go for a license / ??? that allows for free use but requests payment for paid use

      • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
        10·
        10 days ago

        I tried to get paid consulting from it but never got a penny. But you’re right, if I were more aggressive it could have worked as supplemental income.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
        51·
        10 days ago

        Eh, that’s a lot of work. It’s no wonder why there’s such a large “Malware as a Service” industry nowadays

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 days ago

        Maybe go for a license / ??? that allows for free use but requests payment for paid use

        Actually, that would make it non-free (a.k.a source-available) software by FSF’s definition. You can do something like Qt (copyleft license for free, permissive license for a fee), but this doesn’t really work for a lot of software.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    18·
    10 days ago

    This implies that my code lives outside of modern tech. I write pure assembly

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      10·
      10 days ago

      No, you gotta be making your own transistors.
      The one on the bottom is the CPU architectures.

      The background is the laws of the universe.

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    10·
    10 days ago

    Yeah. I am currently only doing projects to learn how to do things I want to learn like writing physics code, CAD software from scratch, etc. My hope is to turn it into a company. Maybe, after the AI bubble bursts, I can start looking for some funding.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    “Whoa, is it floating in the air? No! Listen, I’m into it. That’s cool as hell. That just lets you know how NATURAL and ORGANIC the code is!” – Free Apple Application.

    Also yeah imagine if I did anything, let alone having a project worthy of the thought of uploading it anywhere.