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I haven’t tried Pi-Hole yet but this was the impetus I needed to decide to set it up tonight.

I commented on a different post last night, that I was a bit shocked and saddened to see their Patreon is only pulling in $1,700/mo.

Do they have another significant revenue stream? Is it just too much hassle to bother signing up to Patreon to commit to even $1/mo? Do they have something on the Admin panel where users can click to pay directly?

I’m not judging, I don’t even have a Patreon account. I’m curious how such an apparently crucial and useful piece of software — one that no doubt is responsible for providing millions of dollars of value to its users, and perhaps blocking tens of millions of dollars in ads — how can the project be sustainable after 53 releases and 2,700 issues on Github while pulling in less than $24k/yr?



> only pulling in $1,700/mo.

This is an astonishingly huge amount of money for an open source project to raise directly from its users. Most open source projects get basically nothing.




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