Do you require motivation from the community to code on your project to make it better? It seems you have 814 upvotes, and 3 flags.
Seems you are doing quite well. Not sure what to say that might help you find your motivation. Personally, I quit flagging the account on your word, that you were going to create an opt-in service, where you end-users agreed to be part of other projects.
Thank you. And no, I can manage with the current motivation. It is just hard to justify doing all that work for what amounts to $3-10 per hour when I can do client work that pays $120. My hope is that long term things will work out.
youre not making much money because your strategy is poorly thought out. Youre buying a bunch of votes in return for your services, then squandering them on a low content statistics post where they have as little value as they could possibly have -- which has the added disadvantage of generating ill will when its misunderstood, like your comment vote draining thingy. Or when people don't like seeing LC statistics posts on the front page.
What you should be doing is selling it to someone that actually has something to say and has a regular following, splitting the value and making like 5 times as much. And, as an added bonus, you wouldnt be on trending every day attracting flags.