# How to monetize a Discourse instance?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Janeiro 22, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316 "2015-01-22T16:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\
**Post date:** [Fevereiro 13, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-monetize-a-discourse-instance/24316/13 "2015-02-13T17:56:20Z")

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1. Guilt-trip the people for who you're maintaining the forum into buying you a snack every once in a while.

That’s worked quite well for me so far, plus it’s a motivation to get off my introvert butt and hit a pub at least once a month. 😉

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