# Another developer ask the community for support

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/another-developer-ask-the-community-for-support/6689>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [January 13, 2019, 8:44am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/another-developer-ask-the-community-for-support/6689 "2019-01-13T08:44:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gruijter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gruijter/32/1973_2.png) [@Gruijter](https://community.homey.app/u/Gruijter)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/another-developer-ask-the-community-for-support/6689/6 "2019-01-13T10:02:24Z")

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Donated!

BUT…

I think what is happening here is more proof that a _sustainable_ solution is needed to help out community developers. Tomorrow the next developer will ask the same, and the day after another… The donations are heartwarming, but is donated by a relative small group of people who care.

In my opinion there are a number stakeholders that benefit from the work of community developers:

- The developer himself, since it is his hobby
- App users, since they get more value out of their purchased Homey
- Device manufactures, since they will sell more if Homey supports their device
- Athom sales, since it increases the value of Homey, and more users will buy it
- Athom brand, since the feedback that is provided by developers is used to improve the product (they get free testers)

All the stakeholders should contribute is my opinion:

- The developer: by spending huge amount of time developing and maintaining apps and provide feedback to Athom development
- App users: by paying a small amount of money when they install an app from a community developer
- Device manufactures: by donating test devices and give free support
- Athom sales: by donating a Homey, or give huge discount, based on the number of app installs
- Athom brand: hand out company shares of Athom to developers 🙂

To make app users pay for apps, a donation button is not enough. Less then 1% of app users actually do a donation. Athom could make a paid store, where they have the official Athom apps for free, and where community apps developers can ask anything from 0 \> donate \> max 5 euro.

This would be fair: the more users install a community app, the more he gets paid. This also encourages app builders to work on apps that are really appreciated (= good functionality and stable).

Just my 2 cents…

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