Schedule Your Social - database migrations and monetisation

I've tried several ways to monetise Schedule Your Social without success.

Initially I tried adding a Buy Me A Coffee button. Several people clicked on it over the years but no-one ever donated.

Then I tried an Amazon associates ad for Liquid Death. Again, a very small percentage of the hundreds of unique visitors clicked it but never purchased (actually I think I earned $2 in the Canada account but I didn't bother cashing it out).

Now I've learned that the database service I use, FaunaDB, will be ceasing operations on May 30th of this year (2025). It will probably take me about two days to migrate the codebase to another service and I'm unsure about investing that much time at the moment as I have a full-time job and two young children.

So I've decided to use this as an opportunity to really test if users find it valuable or not by adding a banner soliciting donations to keep the site running.

I think I've made this pretty slick as it includes a donate button which opens the Buy Me A Coffee widget in-app.

I've also created a page that explains the situation more.

I'm looking for about $200 to feel its worth the time investment but am setting my expectations that in all likelihood no-one will donate and this will most likely be the end of Schedule Your Social!

I'm sad because I've put a lot of time into this and I've become fond and rather proud of it. However I only have limited time to work on hobby projects and need to focus on others which I'm equally passionate about and can be better monetised.