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you can build a meaningful business by verticalizing patreon AND building it in to where "fans" hang out. opencollective, good. github sponsors, better.
github is waiving fees and matching up to $5k for the first year.
✅ Finally! This was truly missing. FOSS support is super-duper hard to get by. You know what, I am going to apply right away. 👏
I hope this would supply enough oxygen to quality opensource projects.
Great work Github. Thanks for sharing it @
Huuuuge! I like it. Curious to know what OpenCollective CEO think about it
Woah this is huge news! Such a welcome addition to Github, now you can potentially get paid for pursuing your code side-passion
@hadifarnoud Thank you, but I can't take credit for this one! I'm just cheering on the sidelines these days :) GitHub Sponsors was 1000% the work of @devonzuegel and everyone in this thread: https://twitter.com/katfukui/sta...
This wonderful. OSS is critical to many large and small businesses and having another proper channel like this to support and encourage improvements is big. Nice work Github.
Lol, this is a note of minne from yesterday, seems github got there first, I'm glad I didn't start coding:
What if GitHub Stars = Money
Problem?
I might want to give back to open source, but I’m too ignorant or lazy to actually do it.
Create an indie platform that lets you create a one time or subscription donation to all your GitHub innteractions based on Stars, issues open, etc…
If I have 1000 Stars and donate 100 dollars, each repo would get 10 cents, if 10 more people have starred the same repo than I have, the repo owner would get 1 dollar.
So if she or he has 1000 stars, that’d mean she or he gets 100$
Stars are not so meaningless anymore.
After first donation to a new repo, open an issue encouraging to get to minimum payout amount faster by pushing a badge into readme as a PR.
Seems like a big step for open source community. I was wondering how some people get sponsored for their open source work. Hope to see this as a way to make it easier both to understand and actually achieve.
Not sure how i feel about it, i dont want github to turn into some kind of marketplace :/
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