# How community developers get awarded by Athom **URL:** \ **Category:** Developers\ **Created:** [January 5, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355 "2019-01-05T20:49:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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 11, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/42 "2019-01-11T15:37:24Z")
I created a topic in which I humbly ask Homey users to make donations to buy a development/test Homey. > [@Developer asking for donations from Homey users](https://community.homey.app/t/developer-asking-for-donations-from-homey-users/6625/2): > ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/44 "2019-01-11T17:40:39Z")
The question from the OP still stands tho. ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/45 "2019-01-11T18:16:20Z")
> **[Top five Community Apps - Athom Blog](https://blog.athom.com/top-five-community-apps/)** > > Unleash Homey's power by installing Apps on Homey. We build some Apps ourselves, but most Apps are made by our community. View our five favorite Community Apps of 2018. ---
**Author:** ![Rickp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rickp/32/9466_2.png) [@Rickp](https://community.homey.app/u/Rickp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/46 "2019-01-11T18:39:24Z")
Just wanted to post the same. Funny thing going one. Promoting on one side but lacking some nurturing on the other side ---
**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 11, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/47 "2019-01-11T18:44:50Z")
At least they now acknowledge community apps and the developers this way šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![glenn\_clough](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/glenn_clough/32/9666_2.png) [@glenn\_clough](https://community.homey.app/u/glenn_clough)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/48 "2019-01-11T19:53:48Z")
Out of the top 5 apps, how many can you still install on version 2? i see two that are not compatibleā€¦ and are just grayed out I appreciate a lot how much effort developers put in to their apps (and i know Athom do too), I would happily donate a ā€œcoffeeā€ to the developers that i use apps for, from the outside tho it looks, things look like this at times user finds a issue --\> reports it to the developer --\> then - developer puts some time in and fixs the issue (yay) - you find out the app is abondonware - developer says they are waiting for Athom to fix a ā€œthingā€ and its been waiting over a year now From a user point of view, the app store should time stamp updates for all apps, and make release/change notes mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![Xtasy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/xtasy/32/12671_2.png) [@Xtasy](https://community.homey.app/u/Xtasy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/49 "2019-01-11T20:09:05Z")
How can they promote LED Ring collection when it isnā€™t even compatible with 2.0? ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/50 "2019-01-11T20:12:08Z")
> [@Gruijter](#): > > View our five favorite Community Apps of 2018. Just a matter of what u wanna read @Xtasy ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/51 "2019-01-11T22:15:29Z")
And the developer just made the led ring collection app compatible with 2.0, just waiting approval. Cheers @OpenMind_NL! ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 7:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/52 "2019-01-12T07:08:45Z")
Good way for Athom to ā€œpersuadeā€ developers to move their app to v2: publish it in a top 5 and sit back to see the developer get flooded with reports that their app isnā€™t v2-compatible šŸ˜‘ ---
**Author:** ![David\_K](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/david_k/32/10319_2.png) [@David\_K](https://community.homey.app/u/David_K)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/53 "2019-01-12T12:50:47Z")
> [@Dabon](#): > > For an example, if @TedTolboom stopped his developement, removed the apps from the app store, or simply just stopped updating/maintaining his apps, it would impact my system to the point where I would consider other systems. I wouldnt be able to control any of my thermostats, AC, Xiaomi devices, door locks and so on. I fully agree with what you wrote. Extreme appreciation for @TedTolboom even thou Iā€™m not that dependent on his apps like you are (I posses only one remotec device) I can imagine how big impact his apps have on the prospective and current user base of Homey. I must say that my paranoia is keeping me from using more community developed apps but if I give in it will most likely be Xiaomi and I would definitely accept paying some amount for the app itself. @Bram Are you a bit afraid of @TedTolboom. šŸ˜€šŸ˜€šŸ˜€šŸ˜€ ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/54 "2019-01-12T12:54:28Z")
Since all community apps are open source, you can fork the respective repositories and update them regularly. In the case where a developer decides to remove their apps from the app store (although personally, I think that Athom should never accept any requests from developers to remove their apps from the app store; the app was published _by the developer_ with an open source licence that allows Athom to keep publishing it), you will at least have the opportunity to sideload the app using the command line installation tool. ---
**Author:** ![Xtasy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/xtasy/32/12671_2.png) [@Xtasy](https://community.homey.app/u/Xtasy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/55 "2019-01-12T13:37:54Z")
> [@robertklep](#): > > Since all community apps are open source, you can fork the respective repositories and update them regularly. But then again if you donā€™t know how to update the respective repositories you will have to rely on another dev. Its an endless circle. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/56 "2019-01-12T14:01:36Z")
Agreed, itā€™s not a simple solution ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![jreenen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jreenen/32/811_2.png) [@jreenen](https://community.homey.app/u/jreenen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/57 "2019-01-12T15:44:02Z")
You can always ask another developer to adopt the poorly orphaned app šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Davy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/davy/32/12519_2.png) [@Davy](https://community.homey.app/u/Davy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/58 "2019-01-13T08:03:37Z")
Yesterday I made a fix for using IKEA rgb bulbs in the Hue app (made by Athom), after creating the [pull request](https://github.com/athombv/nl.philips.hue/pull/108) I was presented a legal agreement what I need a lawyer for to understand. A developer Code of Conduct would be ok to sign, but this is quite some strange appreciation from Athom if you ask meā€¦ ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/f/f1851d93f317b0f8253b7e9b9a20909e7d9bc9e4.png) ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/59 "2019-01-13T08:34:54Z")
I sometimes get the feeling that Athom considers community developers to be an adversarial bunch that they, and the users, need to be protected from ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Caseda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/caseda/32/138695_2.png) [@Caseda](https://community.homey.app/u/Caseda)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:52am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/60 "2019-01-13T09:52:37Z")
Before that also this ball is being pushed the wrong way. Athom is _forced_ to take this route, because of real legality reasons they had in the past. Even some community developers needed to add a license to their own open source app for this same reason. But if you donā€™t like it, you donā€™t have to sign off course. ---
**Author:** ![bvdbos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bvdbos/32/2352_2.png) [@bvdbos](https://community.homey.app/u/bvdbos)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/61 "2019-01-13T09:57:44Z")
To add on that: There have been some devs in the past, before this was in place, who deleted their repoā€™s and forced Athom to pull the apps from the store so people were left with less functionalityā€¦ So I have no problem with itā€¦ Other agreements with Athom are possible but for that you have to contact themā€¦ ---
**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, 10:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355/62 "2019-01-13T10:03:59Z")
> [@Another developer ask the community for support](https://community.homey.app/t/another-developer-ask-the-community-for-support/6689/6): > > Donated! BUTā€¦ 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 anotherā€¦ 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 purcā€¦ [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/how-community-developers-get-awarded-by-athom/6355.md?page=4)