“Since May of 2021, SerenityOS has been my full-time job.”
Andreas Kling builds a from-scratch operating system, a browser and a programming language on donations. GitHub Sponsors brings about $2,100 a month and Patreon about $1,400, plus a few hundred from YouTube. That’s a real living from fans alone. It’s also less than a junior engineer at the companies whose products run on open source.