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you run into more trouble that way

Posted by: ProjectGenome on Dec 13, 08:31 in response to JohnTEQP's post Would anyone else consider paying for a subscription to...

There are basically three ways to go with trying to make a buck out of this kind of thing:

1.  Put ads everywhere.  I have ads on the page, but I've gotten about $122 YTD off of them.  That's not enough to justify the workload.

2.  Ask for donations.  I have done this, too, when I've had a specific project in mind, and I've funneled those dollars into code.  But you really don't get that much, and when you do it feels bad.

3.  Put the site behind a paywall.  This sounds like it could work, but in reality you're talking about a site that gets about a thousand impressions every Tuesday and not much after that.  There just aren't enough eyeballs to make it worthwhile, and then you have tax considerations and billing and a whole lot more headaches to deal with, and people are going to share their passwords, you know they are.





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