Gittip, Year Two
Let me preface this by saying: I want Gittip to succeed. I <i>really</i> want them to succeed. I would love to be able to spend my time getting paid by a community to develop open source software. However... those growth curves look linear, if not sigmoid. More importantly:<p>>The Gittip team receives $20,339 per year (averaging the past ten weeks). There are 39 people splitting that money.<p>$500 per person per year? That's not within <i>two orders of magnitude</i> of sustainability.[1] In addition, even the greatest collector of revenue on Gittip can't make a decent living from it. $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California.<p>I truly wish it were otherwise, but this post makes me seriously worry about the future of Gittip. Apparently, they did not make something people want.<p>1. I realize that only a few people are full-time on Gittip, but that's still a <i>huge</i> red flag. Unless the author is being extremely generous with his profit sharing, those numbers are inexcusable.