I'm encountering difficulties right now with a project I open-sourced. Some other people made it a core part of their business, but then I left the company, so

I'm encountering difficulties right now with a project I open-sourced. Some other people made it a core part of their business, but then I left the company, so I can't merge patches to the official branch. And to be honest I don't have the time to do this (I work for another growing startup). But it's still it's one of the best things I have ever done in computing. It was fun, and I got paid to do a kind of pure research, and enhance my own reputation while doing it. My former employer got free patches from very big and talented companies. I've made some interesting connections through this, that's for sure.