Well its not as if the content is that high quality to excuse such a monthly payments. Vue is a tool that is used and appreciated by many and is already very popular. So definitely not Patreon's fault. Also even if you put your work on Patreon you still have to promote it , it does not matter if you make the best software in the world if none knows about it. Patreon is there to help not to do the work for you. Also 10k is far from top 1, not even top 10 or top 20 more like top 50. You need 20k to be on top 10 and more than 60k to be no 1 and I am willing to bet these numbers will only go up. So 10k is certainly awesome but far from best-case.
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