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You don't get paid unless someone adds you to their sponsor pool. If no one knows about your thing, you don't get paid. Am I misunderstanding your question?

> If no one knows about your thing

And if nobody knows that software exists, then it's not helping anybody. My phrasing sounds cruel, but I can't think of a better way to express it

> I have zero stars, zero downloads, and zero users. > I should deserve to get paid.

Why?

I drew a picture of a giraffe. I should deserve to get paid because art.

I don't think the article made the argument that you should be paid unconditionally. It only suggested that it should become easier to donate to multiple projects with a single click.

I'm not convinced that a funding model doesn't work because it pays nothing to a project nobody (not even its own creator) has heard of.