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Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu @magheru_san

I've been working on autospotting.org for almost three years now, and for a lot of this time without any funding.

As of January I started to accept support on Patreon, and soon got my first supporter donating $5/month. I later started to charge for-profit companies $40/ month for easy to install pre-built binaries (after a brief evaluation period), and I recently got a couple of such sponsors.

I'm also allowed by my employer to spend 20% of my work time doing development towards a rollout to the company infrastructure that has potential to generate millions of yearly savings.