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It's hard to monetize it without doing a bunch more work.

I monetize my code for a living. I'd say about 25% of my time is the fun part of writing the code (that just works for me.)

The rest is in debugging the code for all the edge cases, writing docs, examples, training, support etc. In other words the "work" part.

Minimally you need to do enough so that someone can use the code. The code itself has minimal value, the value is in the using.

Then you need to figure out how to reach an audience.

Then you need to decide if the user will pay, or maybe it's ad supported. Or maybe donations.

Hint: unless you have a large audience this will result in very minimal income. Is all this extra work worth it?

You can Open Source it, but frankly its unlikely anyone will find it or use it. It might be an interesting line on your CV, bit again probably of marginal value there.

My advice is that if it has little to no value to others, just move on.



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