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In short: this PR proposes a way to monetize open-source development of your project.
The idea is similar to how free-to-play works in gamedev industry: "You are free to wait for the package download - but in case if time is money for you, please consider buying non-waiting access to the package, every cent goes to the package developer to incentive the open-source development."
For details please refer to https://github.com/Free2Wait/composer-free2wait .
According to packagist statistics of your package https://packagist.org/packages/xamin/handlebars.php/stats , in theory it could bring to you about 17,148 (installs per month) * 0.03 (estimated conversion installs-to-sale) * 5 (price of each non-waiting access per month) = estimated $2,572.2 per month.
Please do not consider it as ready-to-merge PR, it's work-in-progress: I am just willing to get your potentional or conditional (what is needed to make it suitable) consent to merge it in the future. There are already several issues/concerns (see https://github.com/Free2Wait/composer-free2wait/issues).
Please give me your feedback about the idea: what do you think? Are you interested in monetizing open-source development? Do you have any suggestions? Concerns?
Would be glad to receive any feeedback. Thank you for attention.