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Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
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#32The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
Absolutely appreciate & respect your perspective. We're passionate about making open source sustainable & understand that there can be multiple ways of achieving this goal. The more ways money is channeled to the community the better...
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#33How do I convince the management that it's worth spending a fraction of what 1 developer costs to give back to OSS?
Make it as organized/structured as possible. Go through the social initiatives arm of the firm, if they are big enough to have one. To them "our social responsibility initiatives" or "open source community contributions" sounds better and webpage-worthy than "we pay project X, Y and Z" (even though that is basically what it boils down to).
On the other hand, for a smaller firm, this might probably be just a one-to-one talk/convincing an executive. If you can't convince one, try another. If you can't convince any, take it as a flag with the color of your choosing.
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#34The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
Maybe 5% is the wrong number, but how do you expect the lights to stay on?
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#35Love this! Hope it will take off. "Webpack receives close to $200k in funding per year via OpenCollective but its direct dependencies receive minuscule amounts of funding, and there are 80+ of them." ♥
First emoji I have seen on HN. I thought it was not possible to use.
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#36How do I convince the management that it's worth spending a fraction of what 1 developer costs to give back to OSS?
I'd love to help you build out that business case & open source it. Let me know if you're interested https://discord.gg/fQGqvQdWxq We're also started sharing interviews with maintainers who talk about the people aspect of what this funding means to them https://www.youtube.com/@thanks_dev
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#37The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
That seems to be different from this article[0]:
> Thanks.dev presently supports itself through a voluntary tip percentage that, if more than zero, gets deducted from donation amounts along with a Stripe payment processing fee prior to distribution.
I also think they should allow manual addition of projects. E.g. I use Syncthing but that won't be found in my Github/Gitlab scans. I can donate via Github too but would be easier if I can have one place to control all such donations.
[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/07/thanksdev_open_source...
Re: Sponsor the open source projects you depend on
#38The UI imposes a 5% minimum (and 15% default) value for "Tip thanks.dev" under "How much would you like to donate each month?" on https://thanks.dev/settings This implementation is clearly for-profit. I want to directly tip open source projects using a system that doesn't involve other third parties taking a significant cut.
The irony of "someone should build something for free" when complaining about a donation system for helping open source projects get paid for their work.
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#39Genius idea. I try to donate to open source software I've used for long time, especially if I cannot contribute any code back. This site seems to automate the process of finding out which dependencies of your software are accepting donations. Unfortunately, I cannot use this right now, because Maven dependencies can't seem to be found, and neither can Cargo dependencies. I decided to test it with an app that uses a m…
Hi Koito17 Thanks for trying it out! Are you able to ping me your github handle so I can get to the bottom of it (email in profile).
Alternatively, for multi-project repos you can add a thanks.yaml file to the root of the repo with a `maxDepth: 2` value inside it. Unfortunately, deep scanning the entire repo looking for files would be prohibitive due to GH rate limiting hence this approach.
Please keep me posted. I'm also available on Discord if you need anything.
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#40I’d love too but I dislike using payment processors as middlemen for online transactions! I see you’re using Stripe which is one of the worst processors because they opaquely block all sorts of transactions. It would be great to use a system like this to promote and fund open source projects and fuel cottage industry without having to include megacorporations. Make a mail cash option for people who don’t want to show…
> Make a mail cash option for people who don’t want to show their papers to a payment processor!
Consider using Monero for such a purpose. I've gotten paid in Monero. It pretty much just works.