Tom Christie

bit hard to say, Why die I can talk about my experience, you know, at the moment encodes just about manages. So, we have a pretty simple model. There's three different tiers that companies can sign up to. And the monthly recurring revenue that we get from that is just about enough to cover a salary for my

I think I you know, ideally

I would like encode to find a way to bring in another another revenue stream as well on top of the sponsorships I've got some thoughts about something that we could bring into the product space there perhaps that bill that is still an open source product so for example in the way that century managed to both remain an open source product and yet massively succeed as a company think those are the the obvious kind of if you can do the same sort of thing that they've done that for Obviously, I'm not expecting anything on that magnitude Franco. But I would like to follow their kind of model sometime or, you know, the other thing would be just keeping to press for what a solid return on investment the sponsorships offer and try to get the communities a whole pushing for more of these kinds of models, but with larger amounts involved, because the pitch that I generally make, if I'm on the stage and there's a whole bunch of people out there is I want to work for your company full time for $100 a month, or $150 per month. And I'll be working full time on building out all of the stuff that you're using day after day after day. The, you know, the stuff that's been built out as a result of enco being sponsored. You know, over the last three years, there's been starlets being an ASCII web framework. There's unicorn being a web server. There's a whole stack of work on Django rest framework. There's been HTTP x. So a new, a new HTTP clients that you know, so much stuff has come out as a result of the funding. And yet, any one individual company, their outlay on that has been minimal compared to the price of paying for a full time developer. So yeah, maybe trying to push for some higher sponsorship tears as well might be an option. But what I think one of the one of the difficulties for people trying to get into it is it's a lot easier to make the case for sponsorships if you're able to actually free up the time to put in the work as a result, right. So I kind of was very fortunate to be able to get over this hurdle of right I've got enough coming in that I can afford to work on this full time. It's much more difficult if you're actually in a full time job to go, What? How am I going to launch? You know? How am I going to make the case for, I'd like your company to give me this amount of money in order for me to keep working on this, when you're only able to ever work on it as a side project and your time is constrained anyway. So getting over that kind of initial jump, I think is, is one of the really difficult things as well.