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Happy to answer any questions about this. If you're considering this kind of approach for a new project, I'd really recommend it, especially for projects that you plan to release in stages. My strategy with tldraw was to pair the sponsorware'd app with steady content about the its development. It worked pretty well!

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Awesome. Are you open to sharing some #'s? How many people sponsored this?

Sure, this is public info on my profile: https://github.com/sponsors/steveruizok.

I'm up to 211 sponsors, about $1700 per month.

Many of those sponsors are one-time donations. At the beginning, I set the minimum one-time donation to $1; once I reached 100 sponsors, I bumped the minimum up to $10.

The larger sponsors come mostly from digital ink library perfect-freehand (https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand), also MIT licensed, which is being used by many products such as Next.js live, Milanote, Clover, etc.

Congrats! That's great to see.

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