Monetizing and Sustainability

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In this chapter, they discuss the idea of turning their project into a business and monetizing it with premium accounts, but ultimately decide to keep it as a free and open-source project supported by the community. They mention setting up a GitHub sponsors program and offering consulting services to make the project sustainable. They also mention having three monthly sponsors, including one significant donor, but acknowledge that it is not yet enough to cover all the living and operating costs.

This week we’re joined by Marcin Kulik to talk about his project asciinema. You’ve likely seen this out there in the wild — asciinema lets you record and share your terminal sessions in full fidelity. Forget screen recording apps that offer blurry video. asciinema provides a lightweight, text-based approach to terminal recording with lots of possibilities. Marcin shares the backstory on this project, where he’d like to take it, who’s supporting him along the way, and we even included 11 minutes of bonus content for Changelog ++ subscribers.

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