I think it is because nobody who has responded so far is making money from Tidelift. Tidelift is a neat idea. But it's far from the first attempt at finding w

I think it is because nobody who has responded so far is making money from Tidelift. Tidelift is a neat idea. But it's far from the first attempt at finding ways to collectively fund OSS development and maintenance. I think by now we're a bit burned out and skeptical, after seeing various attempts tried every few years, and the financial figures that show up look pitifully small. To be fair, most of the others are bounty sites, with most bounties in the <$100 range for features that may take days or weeks to implement, and Tidelift is something else that is more corporate-friendly, and realistic to live on for someone. It deserves mention for being a neat idea, and it deserves to succeed. But it would need to be paying out to significant numbers of OSS devs to show up as an answer to this Ask HN question.