Irrelevance. The moment you paywall a project, it’s a death sentence. Unless you have a unique and highly sought-after product (top 1%), someone else will just make a free alternative.

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direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some projects were successful at charging for custom work and special support — sqlite for instance.

	▲	boca_honey 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, that's an example of a top 1% project. It even has a detailed Wikipedia article in 35 languages. That model won't fly with small to medium-sized, regular projects.

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SoftTalker 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

If you have just thrown the code out there, in case someone can use it, then who cares? If it's not something you intend to spend more time on, what difference does it make?