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I'm a junior developer, kinda seeking a mentor or someone to work on projects with. If you're interested, email me at eminent_went_0d@icloud.com.
If you’re worried about the job competition impact, I would suggest focusing on your in-person/on-site achievements when building your resume.
Addressing your concern about not being paid for your work, this is an age-old problem with open source. It's hard to make money off a product that is freely available to download. A good rule of thumb is to make users feel like they _want_ to give you money, instead of making them feel like they _have_ to give you money.
Some options you have if you want to keep it open source but still make money:
1. Do the dual licensing approach, and use one open source license of your choice, and one commercial license to allow businesses to use your engine in their proprietary software. 2. Donations link in the open source software 3. Paid technical support/Freemium model 4. Paid training programs to train users to become an expert with your engine 5. Early access subscription model: create a system where users can pay a monthly subscription fee in order to get new features earlier than official release.
There's many times where I just want a deeper understanding of individual terms or concepts in the conversation, and I don't want to ask about them in the same conversation so as to preserve context. Also don't want to jump between conversations. Having them in the same interface would be awesome.
I think the essence of problem solving is not wanting your peers to have to experience the same bullshit that you do.