Gladys Project – Creating an open-source home assistant

Gladys Project – Creating an open-source home assistant(patreon.com)

26 points by pierregillesl 7 years ago | 11 comments

chuhnk 7 years ago |

I wish you the best of luck. I'm also using Patreon to sponsor my work on open source https://www.patreon.com/microhq. It's a great platform to enable this opportunity. I hope you receive more contributions to help you do it full time!

pierregillesl 7 years ago | |

Wow, I'm impressed by your Patreon! Congrats :)

chuhnk 7 years ago | | |

Cheers! If you build something of value people will pay for your efforts as long as you give them a way to :)

wilsonnb2 7 years ago |

I like the project itself but the emojis seem like an odd choice. Including them in a document that's intended to get people to pay you money seems unprofessional to me.

I could be totally wrong about that though, I don't use Patreon so I'm not sure what a page would usually look like. To be honest I've never really understood the culture or appeal of the whole Youtube/Podcasts/Patreon/Internet celebrities thing.

matte_black 7 years ago | |

Dead wrong. Emojis make copy more personable and increase conversions.

pierregillesl 7 years ago | | |

Exactly that's the goal

It's a community project, not a contract :) So I try to be as close as possible from my community

nestorD 7 years ago |

Good luck for your project. Note that there is also Mycroft the Open Source Virtual assistant : https://mycroft.ai/

choxi 7 years ago |

Are there many developers who make a living off of donations to their open source work? Curious about whether it's viable to build a career off of open source.

bckmn 7 years ago | |

I've been rolling an idea around my head to interview and write up stories on some of these people. Here are some that fit (or come close to fitting) your description that I've been talking to:

- https://sindresorhus.com - https://github.com/slact - https://www.patreon.com/microhq - https://github.com/feross/thanks/blob/master/index.js

wilsonnb2 7 years ago | |

No, there aren't many. There are some living off of donations, but it's a very small number. Not something that I would consider a viable career option because it requires too much luck.