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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by DauntingPear7 »

timbowhite wrote: post #170
jonchurch_ wrote: post #157

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers. I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash). OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in…

> I maintain Express.js and Lodash Thank you! > In 2025 I made $10 from open source Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.

What’s wrong with ko-fi?

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by stavros »

pigpop wrote: post #169
stavros wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, no, I'd like it much more if it were an ongoing offering of the $20 plan than a one-off of the $200 plan. The latter just screams of sales tactic.

The 20x plan is much more useful if you use it full time. Trying to put a full 8 hour workday in on the $20 plan is painful since you have to stop when you reach your usage limit and that comes up quickly at that tier. The 20x plan is enough to have multiple independent Claude Code sessions running in parallel working on different features or bugs without hitting limits (unless you've got a lot of sessions going).

That's the problem, it's a "get hooked on the useful plan for six months and then pay us" vs "here's a little something so you can get a little help every day, but forever".

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by Applejinx »

paxys wrote: post #69

> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months. How many total developers does that cover? 100? How many of them aren't already corporate employees? And also > 6 months of free Claude Max 20x So basically a free trial. When Github Copilot first launched they gav…

Shucks, I'm only 1000 stars singlehandedly. Curse my woeful irrelevance :D

I guess I will just have to NOT sign on to this nonsense and allow it to atrophy my ability to think of things independently, thus ending up completely dependent on an outside tool of ever-increasing price.

Gosh darn it, of all the luck.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#174

Post by elxr »

upmind wrote: post #140
nickjj wrote: post #132

It's weird to make it 6 months only because it sends a message of, "Thank you for dedicating 5-10+ years building up a very popular open source project. In return we believe this is worth exactly $1,200 (6 x $200) in credits". Especially since they are scraping all of our work and profiting from it directly without acknowledgement or compensation -- past, present and future indefinitely.

Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.

This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users.

All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by yunwal »

flaviolivolsi wrote: post #74
Ntrails wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. No. "Sorry, subscription has expired, please re-up your account" is an extremely reasonable UX. The whole "free period but we'll auto bill you after" is a shitty dark pattern that mostly exists to extract value from life admin errors. The people who got enough value to justify the cost would've paid anyway .

Or you can just add a reminder before the free period expires

Or they could just not autocharge people, or allow people to decide whether to autorenew or not when they sign up. The fact that they don't do that shows that they're trying to pull one over on people.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#178

Post by yunwal »

elxr wrote: post #174
upmind wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.

This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users. All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.

No, giving a "free" subscription that autorenews and charges you $200 if you forget to cancel is definitely a ploy

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#179

Post by elxr »

yunwal wrote: post #178
elxr wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users. All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.

No, giving a "free" subscription that autorenews and charges you $200 if you forget to cancel is definitely a ploy

> If you have an existing paid Anthropic subscription, your current billing will be paused for the duration of the Benefit Period and will resume at your then-current plan and rate at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel. If you have an existing free Anthropic account, the Program subscription will be applied to that account and your free subscription will resume at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel.

Wrong. They've explicitly stated it won't autorenew at the Max 20X tier.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

#180

Post by geerlingguy »

timbowhite wrote: post #170
jonchurch_ wrote: post #157

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers. I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash). OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in…

> I maintain Express.js and Lodash Thank you! > In 2025 I made $10 from open source Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.

I have done that for years, and so far have received the equivalent of $25 (through three mBTC transactions) on my Bitcoin address, and maybe $90 through whatever the token is Brave uses (BAT?).

I still get random donations through an old PayPal email address that's listed on the same page as my bitcoin address, and that totals more like $100 (a year, not over the lifetime).

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