Sourcehut Q1 2019 financial report

Thanks for posting this, Robert! For those interested, I also posted the monthly &quot;what&#x27;s cooking&quot; today, which should give you an idea of the pace of feature development and cool stuff since you last checked out sr.ht:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.sr.ht&#x2F;~sircmpwn&#x2F;sr.ht-announce&#x2F;%3C20190515160338.GA6166%40homura.localdomain%3E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.sr.ht&#x2F;~sircmpwn&#x2F;sr.ht-announce&#x2F;%3C201905151603...</a><p>I&#x27;m always available to answer questions, either here or at sir@cmpwn.com.

I love the transparency that this report brings. An honest report of what happened, and what to expect going forward. Wish this was more common, especially for companies that run a lot of the infrastructure for open source and free software developers to use.<p>It seems to be a excellent start to a platform. But what worries me is the way how the funding of the entire platform need to be sustainable, otherwise all of the services within will eventually close and be lost. Instead of where each service could have it&#x27;s own funding, and people can vote with their wallet which service to keep.

FWIW: sr.ht is pretty cool, has a nice no-nonsense UI, and the build system is really simple and powerful. It&#x27;s not &quot;done&quot; but it works and is going in the right direction. It&#x27;s a very nice corner of the Internet. I&#x27;ve been using it for personal repos and I&#x27;m really happy.

When I first saw this project, I thought it was interesting and signed up. But I&#x27;ve never gotten around to using it. I don&#x27;t remember what I thought the name was when I read about it, but for some reason it got stuck in my head that the sr.ht domain stood for &quot;Sir Hat&quot;. And that&#x27;s how I&#x27;ve always read it in my head whenever I see it anywhere.<p>Sourcehut makes more sense.

I&#x27;m actively using[0] sr.ht with a paid membership. I really like the service and the build system is super simple and easy to use, while fulfilling everything I need for my private development. The owner has been super responsive to feedback&#x2F;issues. I encourage other people to try it out as well and I am looking forward to see how this service grows.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~rukenshia&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~rukenshia&#x2F;</a>

This is a great service but honestly the pricing is too low at $20&#x2F;year.<p>You should change your professional plan, probably Mark it up 3-4x at least. If professionals are using the service (ie they’re making money themselves from it) some will pay $40&#x2F;month for it. Just a few of those subscribers will let you hit all your goals, work full time on it and let you keep the $2&#x2F;month plan out there in the long term.