You can even buy the app itself on it. It’s going to be my starter for all other projects too, so I’m adding all the common CRUD app features. Also it aims to be lowest cost possible, which is free for now. I try not to tie it to specific technologies when possible to make it as easy as possible to switch providers in the future.
Read-only makes it so a buyer can’t push to main or modify the repo configuration. So to stop someone from paying to “grief” it in the worst case, and just to stop buyers from making changes the owner didn’t sign off on in more typical cases. They can still raise issues and submit PRs, to my knowledge.
Yes it’s intended for private repos. As it stands you could add a public repo but there wouldn’t be much point unless you’re using it as a way to accept donations, though I think GitHub Sponsors is more apt for that. Typically when you add someone to a private repo, they get full write access.
You can even buy the app itself on it. It’s going to be my starter for all other projects too, so I’m adding all the common CRUD app features. Also it aims to be lowest cost possible, which is free for now. I try not to tie it to specific technologies when possible to make it as easy as possible to switch providers in the future.