I'm always so disappointed when I see a "Pricing" link on "Show HN" projects. Open source and giving things away was always the most cool/radical part of the web for me.

That may have worked when the economy was (1) better, so people who made these things already had money and (2) not focused mostly around tech.

We're forced to live in capitalism whether we like it or not and that means we're forced to make money on our projects, or die.