Why I Stopped

Who?

Github: Oscar Godson

Project: EpicEditor

Date: 06/03/2021

Why?

In response to a tweet about a Business Insider article regarding open source maintainers and stress, Oscar Godson quote replies explaining why he chose to disengage, citing the lack of financial support despite numerous large organizations using his project.

This is why I stopped. I had a pretty popular open source project (EpicEditor). It was featured by GitHub, used in Drupal and even in Adobe’s enterprise CMS. I got paid exactly $0 ever. No complaints since I did it for free but it made me burn out of open source since ROI = :chart_with_downwards_trend: