[luxstyle]

Absolutely. Imagine how much more you can help if you had a team helping to build and grow your website. If you want, don't take a dime for yourself and instead invest it all into growing your business and helping others. If you're delivering something that gives real value to someone's life, and it's priced correctly, they will pay for it.

[anigbrowl]

But what about the people you won't be helping any more if it becomes commercial? That could vary wildly depending on the context.

[tracker1]

Can you help anyone if you're homeless on the street?

At some point there is a trade off to any number of choices. I choose to keep active employment, and open what I can, when I can. Mostly utilities that I wrote for work that aren't core functionality that it makes sense to separate out anyway. Heaven help me if something got too popular and people wanted a support model.