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Tman
Tman

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Where do Open Source developers get their motivation to keep developing?

After years of making a living using Open source code and tools I decided to develop something others would find useful as my contribution to the open source community.

I dug around on GitHub looking for inspiration and decided to build a Desktop Invoicing App with Electron.

Now that its done I don't have the motivation to keep working on it with just the hope that someday someone will find it useful. What signals do you use to tell if your open source project is making an impact even if it's tiny one?

Knowing that would be enough for me to keep going. In the absence of such "signals", what keeps you going?

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