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It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but as you can see elsewhere in this discussion thread he mentions this himself on his own X account:

"get asked the same about terminals all the time. “How will you turn this into a business? What’s the monetization strategy?” The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate."

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964785527741427940

Take a good guess where the three commas come from.

>>mindcr+(OP)
>The monetization strategy is that my bank account has 3 commas mate."

Having money doesn't mean that you'll have the motivation to continue working on something for free forever.

>>charci+XI
Free work is the most rewarding work on every metric but monetization in my experience, and when you hit road bumps you can pay your way out of it to keep going. Sounds like the literal dream

>>mindcr+(OP)
Tres Commas!

>>mindcr+(OP)
I didn't think it was possible for anyone to express this thought more obnoxiously than DHH but here we are.

>>cholan+n01
The obnoxious one here is the person obsessed with monetization, not the person who throws their ignorance back in their face. Every hobby these days has to be monetized; it's fucking gross.

>>lillec+jQ
Without turning this into a brag session, this is my experience. I don't have to worry about money anymore, so I get to work on cool projects at my own pace, do things that probably sound pointless to most, and it doesn't matter if it's successful. The important thing is that I'm interested.

I'm not as talented as Mitchell tho.

>>cholan+n01
Is DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) worth 100M USD? Google results say he is worth about 50M USD... so "only" two commas.

>>lillec+jQ
There are a ton of different projects one can devote free work to. Eventually one will get bored and want to change things up.

>>cholan+n01
I think the bigger thing here is that even with three commas in his bank account he lacks the good sense to not associate with DHH.

>>throwa+H71
Three comma club is for billionaires.

>>KPGv2+M61
Eh; it's maybe dumb to suggest the only way for a project to be sustainable is to monetize it, but responding with "I'm rich, you peasant, I'm above such concerns" is infinitely worse.