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

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Post by jonchurch_ »

overgard wrote: post #190
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 dunno, is a free trial really a gift? Especially if the thing they're trialing is built off the data you're giving them? To be fair it does have a pretty significant monetary value (which can't be transferred..), but personally it feels a little off

I currently pay them $200/month out of my own pocket for this already, so for me it is not a free trial but subsizing my usage.

Agreed that $200 USD would be preferable (credits dont pay rent). My comment is directed at the strong words others have left about this being in bad faith on the whole. Even if it is, then their bad faith efforts are better than most.

Opinions here will vary, I wanted to share mine <3

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

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Post by jonchurch_ »

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.

ETH address 0x60F9CC1b97C78D8E8337Ef991a34bd8D9e600420 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

#193

Post by simonbw »

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.

Surely the easiest way is something like a PayPal/venmo link, no? I know a lot more people who use those than crypto.

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

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Post by madeofpalk »

univrsal wrote: post #97
mostlyk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what's the Github program here?

Github gives Copilot Pro to open source maintainers but they don't really tell you what the requirements are. I have it and I just get a notification every month that it's been renewed and I never even applied for it. I assume it's a combination of activity on github and popularity of your repositories.

I work for a commercial open source company, working on the open source product. I applied for it way back in the day and got it, and i still get the emails every month saying that they renewed my free grant.

This is all despite the company also paying for Github Copilot.

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

#196

Post by dimava »

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…

Just to reiterate

ANTHROPIC IS GIVING EVERY DECENTLY LARGE MAINTAINER $1000 WORTH OF INFERENCE (~x8 that in API prices)

They likely made a marketing budget for this of $1M or so

Other OSS stuff like Copilot or JetBrains costs to providers much less, $100/yr most (licenses are not expenses, only inference is)

Anthropic may get $500(average total for all 6mo) per user of just inference costs

6 months is because this is experimental and they have no idea what to expect

(their devrel department is meh as you could've noticed already), when they see it working they'll make it autorenew or something

ESR (Eric S.Raymond) asked OpenAI to match and got one, so the same offer from OpenAI will likely follow soon[tm]

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

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Post by remus »

overgard wrote: post #190
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 dunno, is a free trial really a gift? Especially if the thing they're trialing is built off the data you're giving them? To be fair it does have a pretty significant monetary value (which can't be transferred..), but personally it feels a little off

> I dunno, is a free trial really a gift?

To OPs point, whether you want to call it a gift kinda feels like splitting hairs. As is well established, most software companies have huge dependencies on OSS yet contribute very little so $1200 in free service is a pretty big step up over the fuck-all you'll get from most places.

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

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Post by jonchurch_ »

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…

> How many total developers does that cover? 100?

I love these questions bc they both can be answered with some slight heuristics, and they are quite surprising!

As of January 2026, there were > 13k npm packages w/ more than 1 Million monthly downloads [1]

Answering "how many total developers does that cover" is a lot harder (more expensive, rather, as I am not going to pay for the query on Google BigQuery to answer it, not after I spent $3k by accident last time doing similar exploration in the past)

I wont try to make a SWAG about how many devs have write access across those repos, but in the npm ecosystem alone I'm comfortable saying it is an order of magnitude more than 100.

[1] - https://gist.github.com/jonchurch/1dd845f4d26823fce5590af1aa...

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

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Post by yunwal »

elxr wrote: post #179
yunwal wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 y…

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