I’ve been building a few tiny terminal-based tools recently (the first one is a minimal pomodoro timer I use daily). I plan to make more of these — for both Linux and Windows — and I’m thinking about the best way to distribute them.

Here is an example with my current tool:

GitHub as landing page: https://github.com/Mietkiewski/MPomidoro

Gumroad for packaged builds PWYW: https://mietkiewski.gumroad.com/l/mpomidoro

I’m curious how Linux users feel about this kind of distribution. Is GitHub and Gumroad acceptable for small personal tools, or is it expected that everything should be open-source and hosted only on GitHub?