Title: I have (what I think to be) a pretty good idea for a website. I also have a full-time job that I&#x27;m very happy with.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of launching my idea on Heroku, and the monthly fees would run around $300 a month. Mind you, this is with two dynos, two workers, and the &quot;production&quot; level of a few add-ons (Redis, Postgres, etc).<p>My problem is that I have no interest in charging money or providing an additional tier of features for people who would pay money. I want to try launching my idea, see if it&#x27;s useful, then scale the site&#x2F;add-ons to match those needs. I&#x27;d also like to open-source the whole site. But what happens if (a very large, hypothetical if) it does turn out to be more useful than I expected?<p>The only way I can think of breaking even is by asking for donations. Is donationware in the Internet age a viable option? Has anyone done it successfully?
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