Built an iPhone app for free for a local nonprofit. This directly lands me a part time well paid internship offer.

And they say you should never work for free

Unless you want to contribute to a good cause considering your work as donation like in your case.

Karma knows it’s way

I have almost same story as you and I was homeless while working for free. After well paid internship I went to close to 6 figures. (Lucrative/retarded technology/high demand) tech tho. Best of luck to you and bust ass once you realize you provide way more value than your paid (I’ll give it 3 months once you see after learning the stack the value the full time employees provide is shit) either move on or demand full time employment.

Happy for You :)