@simon Sure, I understand that. This is a product talk. If you have a product, sell it.
What I do, is not products. It's R&D. Taking two or more things, mushing them together and seeing if it blows up or cures white spots on the map.
From some things I do, products grow. Like Every Door and other editors, Easy Transit, Nik4. Or other people take my R&D and form it into products they sell, like RocketData and InkAtlas did.
Cashable "value" comes from general public. My audience is mappers.
@simon ...and that's the problem with most open-source: they target other developers, just like I target other mappers, and that's not a very visible or paying audience. You do pip install, not buy a library. You download every door, not pay for a privilege of improving OSM.
When OSMF sees something the general public can benefit from, they pay. E.g. Jochen's work on the data model. I suggested different API and data model improvements that benefit _mappers_ in 2019, but that's long forgotten.