Hey folks, question -- my buddy and I are working on a new OSS project that's been taking off recently and we're starting to gain some traction.<p>It's taking up A LOT of our time.<p>This is cool enough where we're actually considering quitting our day jobs to maintain it, but we still need to somehow feed ourselves...<p>I'm curious if there are other OSS maintainers here who have done it before and can give us their two cents (no pun intended) on monetization?<p>Do we ask for donations? patreon? just stick to sponsorships? Or is there another way we're missing (short of opening a company around it, which we'd rather not do for reasons out of the scope of this post).<p>Any help appreciated!
Hi, I've collected many monetization approaches in the "Awesome OSS Monetization" list on Github - maybe it helps you to find alternatives to donations / sponsorships:<p><a href="https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization">https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization</a>
Hi,<p>I've created Claper [0], an open-source tool for real-time interaction with a public. You have multiple ways to monetize an OSS, starting from donation, sponsorship to consulting or SaaS.<p>Personally, I chose the last one with a cloud version. I like this model, people paying for the SaaS support the project and have, in return, a hosted version of the OSS, and so contribute to improve it.<p>[0] <a href="https://claper.co/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://claper.co/</a>
Some resources for grants and patronage:<p><a href="https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants">https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#grants</a>
<a href="https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#patronage">https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources#patronag...</a>