A curated list of awesome resources for funding open source projects and authors.
- Saasify - Provides monetized APIs on top of OSS projects.
- CodeFund - Provides funding for makers via ethical ads.
- Tidelift - Provides subscriptions connecting businesses with OSS devs.
- FOSSA - Open source management for enterprise teams.
- Gitcoin - Crowdfunding and freelance devs for your software projects.
- Back Your Stack - Discover your dependencies and financially support them.
- Scarf - Provides monetized CLIs for OSS projects.
- xs:code - Paid subscriptions for OSS projects.
- GitHub Sponsors - Recurring donations for GitHub developers and organizations.
- Patreon - Membership and recurring donations for independent creators.
- Open Collective - Open communities with full financial transparency.
- Buy me a coffee - Donations and relationship building for independent creators.
- Salt - Crowdfunding to help devs earn a monthly salary from OSS.
- Liberapay - Recurring donations for OSS projects.
- Flattr - Monthly subscription for donating to OSS projects.
- thanks - Give thanks to the open source maintainers you depend on.
- Ko-fi - Single and recurring donations for your projects without platform fees.
- Issuehunt - Issue-based crowd sourcing/funding for OSS projects.
- Bountysource - Bounty-based funding for OSS projects.
- License Zero - For-profit licenses for OSS projects.
- Lemonade Stand - The de facto living survey of different approaches for funding OSS.
- Getting paid for OSS - A solid guide for traditional means of funding OSS.
- Why funding open source is hard - Awesome read by Eric Berry.
- How to keep the lights on at Codefund - Excellent analysis of different approaches to OSS funding by Eric Berry.
- Fighting for open source sustainability
- Funding experiment recap - Great breakdown and insights by Feross.
- Should OSS advertise?
- Open core vs SaaS
- The internet relies on people working for free
- Open Core Summit Intro
- Commercializing open source - By a16z.
- What comes after open source? - By a16z.
- Passion Economy - By a16z.
- What is subscription based open source?
- Open core definition and tradeoffs
- COSS business models
- Creating OSS value != Capturing OSS value
- The broken economics of OSS
- The OSS model is under siege
- The world runs on open-source, but who’s paying for gas?
- Sustain OSS - Organization focused on making OSS more sustainable.
- COSS Media - Resources to help Commercial OSS (COSS) founders build lasting companies.
- Open Core Summit - Focused on connecting the world's Commercial OSS (COSS) companies.