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

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Post by janalsncm »

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

It is a gift of six months of the service. And I don’t think being built using OSS matters here? For example, if AWS gave Linux maintainers free EC2 instances it wouldn’t feel off.

I think what you’re getting at involves more data that was scraped illegally. Like if Anthropic gave free Claude access to writers since it just lost a lawsuit related to copyrighted books, that would be kind of a slap in the face. But OSS software is not published with an expectation of payment.

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

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Post by socketcluster »

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…

Yep, I had the same reaction. It was like. "Huh? What? Actual acknowledgement of contributions? Cannot compute." They even made the requirements just low enough for me to qualify. We'll see if I actually get the deal though but this could be the most generous thing that ever happened to me in the open source sphere. I have a tendency to fall through every possible crack so this is an actual shock to me.

Don't get me wrong, I definitely see the cynical side that Claude may potentially benefit from learning my high quality coding practices as a result of this... This is clearly also a way to source high quality training data. Maintainers of open source projects with 5K+ stars are among the most competent engineers you can find and they're not biased towards unnecessary complexity as most corporate folks are. The reason is simple; if you code for free, there is no incentive to maximize billable hours; it's the opposite. This is a real gold-mine of quality coding data. AI companies should be fighting over us.

But still, I think this is nice in either case. These days, I appreciate people using even cold calculated logic as a motivation for doing the right thing. I'm tired of people being irrational and doing the wrong thing because the wrong thing sounds more marketable to investors.

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

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Post by janalsncm »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #51
skybrian wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So put a reminder on your calendar to cancel. It's not hard. That shouldn't be a reason to pass this up.

That never works for me. I try to only sign up for things that I can cancel immediately and continue to use for the rest of whatever time period I signed up for. Instead of potentially getting billed for some trial I forgot about, I would rather pay for a month, immediately cancel, and then repeat every month when I realize it's not working. Besides helping me keep my expenses under control, it doubles as an evaluati…

Alternative solution is to use a virtual credit card and immediately “lock” it so it cannot be charged the next month. When the site complains next month, either delete the account or momentarily unlock the card.

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

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Post by LtWorf »

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…

You don't get $200/month of value, you get your first dose.

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

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Post by LtWorf »

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.

Why would cryptocurrency be the easiest way to donate when nobody is using it?

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

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Post by LtWorf »

simonbw wrote: post #193
timbowhite wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Paypal banned my account the instant someone did donate to me. I suggest stripe.

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

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Post by LtWorf »

babarock wrote: post #133

> You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. I've been an open source maintainer of one of the biggest open source projects in the world[1], and it wouldn't fill any of these requirements. Anybody else hates it that now "open source" is conflated with Github (a private company, itself not open source) popularity? [1]: https://www.openstack.o…

Eh in a talk I gave i showed how easy it is to buy github stars and fake downloads to become popular, so these things should not be used as indicators of popularity.

And yes I hate it. Some "scanners" flag all my projects as abandoned because I moved to codeberg.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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

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Post by pb7 »

unvalley wrote: post #114

Anthropic’s models have almost certainly gorged on an enormous amount of OSS, and if they think they can settle that debt with only six months of perks for the maintainers who’ve kept that ecosystem alive, it comes across as pretty arrogant.

Nobody alluded to this but you.
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