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Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#22Lo, behold how the beast doth roar! From the depths thereof it crieth aloud, saying, “Feed me.”
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#23>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. pour one out for us gitlab users :(
Other comments indicate that it’s just a free trial that converts to paid at the end. So, don’t worry, you are just excluded from an ad basically.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#24The cynicism here is crazy. You can get a lot done in 6 months and prices will probably have dropped by then due to competition. There's no lock-in keeping you from switching coding agents if you're not stupid about it.
There's nothing wrong with taking advantage of limited offers.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#25At first I thought people here were being pretty unsympathetic to an early version of a beneficial program. I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their support for open source. I expected to see something along the lines of, "at the end of the 6 months we'll evaluate whether to continue your free plan." But no, they're quite explicit ab…
So put a reminder on your calendar to cancel. It's not hard. That shouldn't be a reason to pass this up.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#265000 stars. That's an interesting threshold. I've checked and astropy -- the main python module used by pretty much every python user in astrophysics has 5100 stars. I would guess almost no open source code in science would pass the threshold. EDIT: Just another test, one of the most used codes in astro -- an ensemble Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo sampler https://github.com/dfm/emcee has 1600 stars. It just shows the 5000…
Number of stars also excludes self hosted forges. Stars is more of a GitHub-wants-to-be-a-social thing than actual measure of popularity.
Yeah, I was going to come here to say this. Apart from a) stars are a dubious metric b) 5000 stars is an insanely high bar, there is the issue that there are definitely lots of projects that choose not to partake in GitHub at this point.
That said, they do have a "contact us" line in there which implies some flexibility.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#27at close to 120 stars within 2 weeks from launch, i hope i make it there!
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#29At first I thought people here were being pretty unsympathetic to an early version of a beneficial program. I could see a company setting a 6-month timeline initially, so they can reevaluate the program and choose how to evolve their support for open source. I expected to see something along the lines of, "at the end of the 6 months we'll evaluate whether to continue your free plan." But no, they're quite explicit ab…
So put a reminder on your calendar to cancel. It's not hard. That shouldn't be a reason to pass this up.
Dont accept this subscription dark pattern
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#30AI is somewhat helpful but I'm not interested in a company finding a way for me to pay to do my volunteer OSS work. GitHub Copilot offers a permanent free subscription for OSS maintainers.
I previously ignored a free offer when Claude reached out to me as an open source maintainer as it was a glorified free trial. I hope this one continues beyond the listed 6 months, I am not interested in a glorified free trial and if it requires entering credit card details I won't be signing up.