I'm starting to see some paid boilerplates for popular web stacks that include stripe integrations, crypto currency, etc. and things like that, but they charge upwards of $200 for access to their private repos.
If apps focused on making both hosting providers and users money would we really need bigtech subsidies?
I like how nostr is doing it and stacker.news gives 50% of revenue for a terrority to the territory's owner.
Money is just an intangible facility to acquire real goods of tangible value and, being only of intermediary validity, has no intrinsic value in itself.
Free Software (or Open Source) is real tangible value provided by and to its users without any intermediary detours such as money. Free Software is priceless intrinsic value by and in itself.
No need for steenkin' mohnay.
Free Software is about the money you don't need and don't have to spend. Money that doesn't need to be spent also doesn't need to be made, at the same time saving you the one thing that is much more valuable and scarce than anything else: Your very own life's time.
The best money that can be made is the one that doesn't need to be spent and therefore doesn't require giving away one's most precious limited life time to someone else's benefit.
What is the incentive for an open source software creator to make money for you and not for themselves?
"they" don't "need" to do anything for whomever you are.
It sounds like you might benefit from blocking out some time and producing a public open source project. Then when you deal with people like yourself explaining that you "need" to eat ramen noodles and live in your car so they can make money for free, you will be able to understand what is wrong.
I feel like for open source projects to really get my
attention they need to offer a way for me to generate
income from it.
Shucks, I can't imagine why there's not a line to take you up on that offer /s