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marknadal

An annual budget of $6K is going to take a long time to gain momentum.

Compare against other successful projects, like:

- VueJS, $9K / month: https://www.patreon.com/evanyou

- GUN (mine, an Open Source Firebase) $1.9K / month: https://www.patreon.com/gunDB

It looks like the Patreon route is better than the open collective route.

I'd be interested to have a debate, though - just seems like the numbers tell their own story. No?

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Well, the article specifically discusses Open Collective vs Patreon, referencing VueJS. What do you think of the differences mentioned there?

Jason seems to be opposed to the idea of a BDFL in exchange for a day job. To me, this is why the numbers are going to be different. Ideas need a prophet, a messiah to attach to. I'm strongly against centralization, but decentralization and P2P and "open" don't mean "lacking a visionary". And you can't hand a "rally call" over to a group of people - not that a group isn't powerful, but personality is important to any movement. And if a group adopts a personality, it becomes conformity.

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