Hey Peter! Thank you tons for your contributions here!
I'm an Indian in the US on an H1B visa and working in software. I've also made a product for fun on weekends (which my company knows about and approves of).
I was thinking of opening access to it for the world, but as it'll involve substantial costs on (cloud) infrastructure, I'll have to ask people to pay for usage on it. I don't plan to profit from this in any way right now. People will mostly pay for their share of usage.
From some rough googling (oh, no!), it seems like this wouldn't work under the rules of the H1B as it'd be considered unauthorized work. Is there any legitimate way of giving people access to this without having to also just pay for all the infrastructure myself?
Also would it be fine to just release it for free?
I'm an Indian in the US on an H1B visa and working in software. I've also made a product for fun on weekends (which my company knows about and approves of).
I was thinking of opening access to it for the world, but as it'll involve substantial costs on (cloud) infrastructure, I'll have to ask people to pay for usage on it. I don't plan to profit from this in any way right now. People will mostly pay for their share of usage.
From some rough googling (oh, no!), it seems like this wouldn't work under the rules of the H1B as it'd be considered unauthorized work. Is there any legitimate way of giving people access to this without having to also just pay for all the infrastructure myself?
Also would it be fine to just release it for free?