I'm not involved with Caddy, but in my understanding the author has had some bad times with his previous project. Sounds like - although it was popular among companies and government - he had open bills caused by his work on it. That certainly is a rather frustrating experience.

> I learned a lesson from my last project, Papa Parse. That project, like Caddy, experienced a very successful reception on Hacker News. It was picked up by numerous companies to enhance their product offering; government departments around the world use it, and even the United Nations and Wikimedia integrate it. But now I have to pay the bills, and inevitably, work goes where the money does.