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I got infected in a hospital while already suffering from an autoimmune flare. I was isolated for a week, hazmat suits, the works. Lost 15lbs in the hospital and had to take antibi…

The recent Who wants to be hired thread inspired us to see if we could provide a really compelling and useful tool for finding potential job candidates. While there have been attem…

Unfortunately a number of those APIs are still not available on iOS and have seen little to no traction[1] 1. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593

Yes, we do hold payments for projects and pay them out monthly. However if you don't want to claim your funds on StackAid but do accept donations elsewhere, we will use those servi…

Sure, but you (maybe not you specifically) _solve problems_ by using a lot of open source. Your ability to do your job and get paid depends on the labor of others. Why not compensa…

I see a lot comments here suggesting the he should just pack his bags and get a corporate gig. How many other great open source projects will we miss out on because developers see …

At this risk of some self promotion, we developed StackAid ( https://stackaid.us ) to help fund the long tail of open source because of the exact problems you mentioned. People onl…

But the thing is he DID ask for help, quite a few times and was only met with the hate and vitriol you mentioned. Depressing indeed.

Obviously I’m biased because I have skin in the game but articles like this really do a disservice for getting maintainers paid, something the author purports to support, because i…

There is another, opposite incentive at play which is to reduce the number of dependencies you have so that you receive more funding.

That is effectively what happens. Unclaimed funds are reallocated after a few months to projects that have been claimed. Like you said, that's a good incentive to sign up sooner ra…

To answer your first question, you give StackAid access to repositories that you own (private or public) and we discover the dependencies you use automatically. Those dependencies …

Hey, we are located in the US based in Seattle and San Francisco and incorporated as an LLC. Our other founder has more of a social media[1] presence if that's helpful. We use Stri…

Fair point. There will be a longer grace period initially while we work on the awareness of StackAid.

There is no Stackaid dependency to install. We are treated as an implicit direct dependency for the purpose of calculating the fee we collect. If you have 19 direct dependencies, S…

StackAid founder here. There are a couple of questions that keep coming up that I thought I would address in one place. - People don't want to give money to Stripe, Meta, etc since…

We thought long and hard about how people could game the system but ultimately it will be quite difficult because you still have to convince a large number of developers to actuall…

For a $10/month donation yes our max take would be $0.75. The example on the homepage is for a $20/month subscription.

Appreciate the feedback. In case you didn't see it already, we take a different approach to getting paid[1] that we think is more equitable. You can also use our GitHub action to p…

If stripe doesn’t want to participate (likely) their funds are reallocated. They also have the option to pass on funds to their dependencies

On an individual level allocation may seem a bit lopsided but, in aggregate, useful and popular projects will receive more funding. Commercial projects can either not claim their f…

I don't think it will be a major concern. A couple of thoughts: - We built a simulation[1] of the NPM ecosystem to see how funds would be allocated. Frivolous projects did not see …

Yes, projects with unclaimed funds have a notice at the top of their page. I think there is also an opportunity for us to show you which of your dependencies have been claimed in y…