# Revenue program for developers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Basement\ **Created:** [March 31, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041 "2025-03-31T22:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/IsaacR)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/1 "2025-03-31T22:03:10Z")
Should Obsidian raise there prices and giving this money to people how producing good plugins, for each active user of the plugIn? The PlugIn could automatically deactivated if not used for a month or longer. After that the active users could be measured. And people could get a monthly revenue, so that they keep a plugIn alive. How much is a free developer is really getting from there users? Probably not enough, so that they not keeping there PlugIn alive. I now that that is maybe not the way of obsidian. Maybe I should think about to just paying Obsidian, so that the can by more good plugIns. If they do this stuff. Or should I think about to paying my mostly used PlugIns ? What do you think about it? ---
**Author:** ![IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/IsaacR)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/3 "2025-03-31T22:44:01Z")
Ok, if Obsidian is noticing that the free dev getting not enough they maybe would consider to this step by themselves. But for example there is the PlugIn “persistent graph view”, which seams not being supported anymore, but is a cool PlugIn. Ontop it is difficult to get obsidian integrate a new function. Maybe the dev is lost, then a other dev can’t take the git (I think so), and obsidian probably also can’t take it by itself. All people just have rewrite, because a dev didn’t would like to continue. That is meaning: wasted potential/energy. A solution could be that every dev is giving the rights to obsidian and getting a monthly revenue. If they don’t support there PlugIn anymore, Obsidian can binding it into Obsidian or letting it lying around, or giving it to a new dev, if someone is asking. So obsidian is the person to speak with and the content is getting a bit more centralized. The prices the people pay for obsidian itself are already voluntary so they can stay, obsidian just would raise the voluntary prices a little bit. To buy the dev for there supporting time or after for getting the license. A thought wich I currently have is, that they on this way maybe would get a lot useless licenses. But because they don’t pay for every license, and just doing it for those which getting actively used, it maybe would ok. And also obsidian just could use the extra money, to directly increase there team and buying useful often used plugIns. So it is not really clear for me which is the better way. But finding it interesting to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/cawlinteffid/32/82899_2.png) [@CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/CawlinTeffid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/4 "2025-03-31T23:04:56Z")
Relevant prior discussion: > [@Show support for Obsidian smaller plugin developers](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/show-support-for-obsidian-smaller-plugin-developers/39184): > > Noticed fewer plugin developers and new plugins lately. Also some plugins not being updated or having issues tackled on github. Possibly because it’s not lucrative to spend free time developing plugins and not receiving monetary compensation for it. I feel like this has to change a little. There’s fair support for major plugins like Excalidraw or Kanban but I think the smaller plugins also need some love, otherwise it’ll be hard for new developers to enter the plugin marketplace. What do you gu… > [@Being able to pay plugin developers](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/being-able-to-pay-plugin-developers/78177/2): > > Plugin & Theme developers can set the funding URL in their manifest, which can link to services like GitHub sponsors, Buy me a coffee and so on. When the plugin is installed you can find a Donate button in the settings. The button either has the text, or a heart icon, depending on where you look. [grafik] [grafik] ---
**Author:** ![IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/IsaacR)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/5 "2025-03-31T23:14:51Z")
Why I cant delate my own post? ---
**Author:** ![CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/cawlinteffid/32/82899_2.png) [@CawlinTeffid](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/CawlinTeffid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/6 "2025-03-31T23:30:55Z")
I think you can’t delete a topic once it has replies (or after a certain amount of time has passed). I can delete it if you want. ---
**Author:** ![IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/ee7513/32.png) [@IsaacR](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/IsaacR)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/7 "2025-03-31T23:35:07Z")
yes please do it. And tell the upper level, that is creating a mess in the forum. If I later discover that the discussion is already there. I could directly clean up. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/revenue-program-for-developers/99041/8 "2025-04-28T23:35:50Z")
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