I'm working on a personal project (Windows desktop application) and started thinking about trying to make some money from the application (not the source).  I'm not expecting to make a billion dollars but who knows right?  The easiest way I see is give it out for free and allow people to donate but I'm not sure how well that works or what payment system is the easiest/best (Paypal)?  If I were to sell it how would go about that? 3rd party distribution? Sell it from my own website with Paypal and verify reciepts? Build my own store for the application?Essentially: What method did you use to make money from a personal project (donation, selling, other?) and how did you go about it? Tips?Thanks for your response.
How to sell/distribute my software?
software;software distribution;sales;personal projects
Offer the application for free download on a website.Provide a donation page with your PayPal account listed.Put some Google ads on the website.Advertise around the internet a bit.Profit.At least that's how I would do it.