On: Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer

[enzo1982]

What worked great for me is to simply show a dialog with PayPal donation buttons after my app has been started 10 times.

With the 10 starts threshold only regular users get the dialog and if they don't like it, they can uncheck a box and never see it again.

On average, I get one donation for every 1000 downloads which appears to be a relatively good rate.

[1]: https://github.com/enzo1982/freac