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Sindre Sorhus has a successful Patreon as well:

https://www.patreon.com/sindresorhus

but he's kind of a unicorn (pun intended). I am sure this would not work for everyone.

And $3500 per month is not what a lot (most?) people here would consider a successful financial model even given some consulting etc. on top of that. It depends on where you live of course but bringing in $50K per year (with no benefits) or so in donations is not something a lot of professionals--especially those qualified to work for major software companies--would consider a sustainable income stream.

He looks to be located in Bangkok:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/ama/issues/414#issuecomment-...

The creator of Vue.js (in sibling comment) has a Patreon account with a monthly income of $US15k+ (at time of writing this).

That seems to be more in line with "standard" professional rates. :)

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