* Is this a personal passion project? or something you plan to monetize? * Are you using the discord/sub reddit for motivation? or as a precursor to moving to a paid model, with patron as a way to test the waters on commercial interest?
I enjoy programming, and this is a fun project. And it's something I find useful. It lets me play with new tech.
Before this I hadn't really used docker (as one could probably tell by my poor dockerfile).
But I have been using Blazor for about 2 years now, I like webdev cos it always has new tech to play with.
It would be nice one day to make a few hundred or something a month as bonus play money. Not going to lie, it would be nice. But its not a requirement for me. I built this for me to use at first, I figured I use a bunch of free software others make, I should pay it forward.
But it will likely always be free in one shape or form. Maybe if there were ever a commerical application for it I could do a commerical licensing or something. Tdarr does this something like this. The motivation for that would be to devote more time/money into making it better. I want to get Intel Hardware encoding working. But my unRAID server is running an intel cpu from 2013 so doesn't support it. My dev box is a AMD cpu. I'll be upgrading my server in the not too distant future, but sure patreons or something help that to be sooner rather than later would be nice. But totally not necassary.
But for the average user, I'd like to keep it free. Properly free, not really limited free.
Also I'm not convinced there is a market for it beyond tech nerds like myself.
I also kinda treat it as an only CV/showcase.