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Decided to finally get onboard with Github sponsors and was dismayed to see this message: "You'll be @babel's 13th sponsor, helping them reach their goal of $1
by swrobel 6y ago
Decided to finally get onboard with Github sponsors and was dismayed to see this message:
"You'll be @babel's 13th sponsor, helping them reach their goal of $12,000 per month."
If a project as widely-used as babel can only attract 13 sponsors, this model is definitely broken
- bigethan 6y agoThey get _many_ more sponsors through Open Collective https://opencollective.com/babel https://opencollective.com/babel
- jjjeii3 6y agothey make more like 100K per month...
- moritonal 6y agoWhat's the goal of sponsorship? To pay what it's worth or support it's development? Anyone could live a good life off $144k, but is that what Babel deserves? I'll be honest that when I see a repo making more than $100k I kinda feel they don't need sponsorship. Although how does health insurance and the like work for full-time open source devs?
- hobofan 6y ago> I'll be honest that when I see a repo making more than $100k I kinda feel they don't need sponsorship. There are many projects that could use more than 1/2 full-time maintainers.