There was a huge drama about the SMUpdater app. The owner of the Sholes.info site accused the programmer of the app of stealing all the money that came from the market. The programmer said Google doesn't let you pull funds until the end of the month. People got mad, yelling occurred, the site owner pulled the site. Sholes has apparently now become DroidMod with a few people gone now.
http://www.DroidMod.org
http://forum.droidmod.org
Also, they plan on releasing DMUpdater on the market and it will be free so everyone can constantly receive updates even if they haven't donated.