I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig
There’s a huge positive-feedback-loop problem in technology right now that needs to be solved to make projects viable.<p>Never received even one donation/rating/comment/etc.?  Be prepared to wait approximately forever.<p>Got a few, especially publicly-visible?  Suddenly things trickle in faster.<p>Well-known project with 5000 stars?  Here, have more stars.  Here, have more donations.  Success breeds success.<p>Meanwhile, wasn’t it shown that crucial infrastructure like SSL had between 1-2 unknown developers?  How many other projects are there?  How many developers can you <i>name</i>?  How many <i>different</i> projects have you donated to?  How many “not well known” apps have you balked at paying even $0.99 for?<p>It’s a problem.  There needs to be better ways to vault critical “boring” projects into  the well-known category.  And, there has to be a way to keep positive feedback loops from ballooning ratings and income for projects simply because they sorted to the top and stayed there.