> Additionally, I would work on a cloud service using both those projects which at some point would become a business.
> Now this was a good plan. The money from GitHub sponsors which I had previously been donating to charity would take the sting out of not having an income for a while. While far from a salary (where I live), at around $1000 a month it would help pay a few bills.
> I have far more confidence in that vision now that I have raised seed funding. Predicated on that cloud service, I have enough funding to hire a few developers to work on it with me. Last month I was an unemployed code monkey, today I am a Founder / CEO of Textualize. Go figure.
Good find! Getting seed funding to try and monetize a bunch of MIT libraries using a "cloud service". Wild. Wonder if OP was always 100% dedicated to FOSS for 503 days or if they worked on the "cloud service"...
> Additionally, I would work on a cloud service using both those projects which at some point would become a business.
> Now this was a good plan. The money from GitHub sponsors which I had previously been donating to charity would take the sting out of not having an income for a while. While far from a salary (where I live), at around $1000 a month it would help pay a few bills.
> I have far more confidence in that vision now that I have raised seed funding. Predicated on that cloud service, I have enough funding to hire a few developers to work on it with me. Last month I was an unemployed code monkey, today I am a Founder / CEO of Textualize. Go figure.