Here's simple solution: create a product and sell it for money. Seriously. Stop giving stuff away for free. EDIT: let me elaborate. Writing open source is not

Here's simple solution: create a product and sell it for money. Seriously. Stop giving stuff away for free. EDIT: let me elaborate. Writing open source is not a business strategy. At best, it's a gimmick, or outsourcing infrastructure maintenance to the public. What you should do is the following: 1) Project authority. This is easy. You are the creator and maintainer of a critical piece of infrastructure. You are THE EXPERT! 2) Project non-neediness None of this "guys I'm struggling here". People should come to you because you have value to provide, not because they pity you. 3) Value proposition Create a compelling value proposition where you get money in exchange for something. That something could be a product, a subscription, a consultation service, or something else. The possibilities are endless. You are a smart person. If you dedicate a week or two you can figure this out. I don't know many people who are successfully making money from open source. I only know of Zig. Here's what Andrew Kelly did: - He projects authority. You can watch him programming live. He has many live streams and talks. - He does not project neediness. He talks frankly about his finances but none of this "omg you guys are so thankless for all my work". It's more like: hey guys, I'm working on this, if you are interested in this and would like it to continue, consider donating. - He did the drudge work of setting up a non-profit foundation to receive the donations - He got help from people: he doesn't run everything, he doesn't code everything. There are several people working in the Zig Foundation. Now, I don't think you can do this with core-js. It's already pretty mature and any donation you get is basically going to come out of pity. You don't want to be in this situation. That's why I think it's better for you to create a consultancy and provide some kind of service where people are compelled to pay you money because you are just so valuable. My man, there are people out there making over $10k/mo from things like "copywriting" a few emails a month for a few high class clients. You can do better.