Ask HN: Is there a market for community revenue sharing bootstrapping?
I feel getting people to pay for things is extremely difficult if you have zero experience building a product.
On one hand you have people that are highly resistant to paying for things: perhaps organisational culture, not having resources or not wanting or being capable of spending money or not having permission. In my experience of reading about Software developers they prefer not to pay for the tools they use. Generalisation.
If I had to pay for my open source stack, it would be expensive because of the value provided.
So my idea is why isn't there a company that provides payment services that offers expensive software in return for a proportion of revenue?
You could have a community website that was pay-as-you-go that offered payments integration for automatic collection of revenue.
The idea being, build your side project with us and you'll pay as you go
The company would be designed around a scalable architecture that can handle rapid growth. You rely on clients to drive revenue and you win.