nevernude

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by nevernude 3y ago
I got infected in a hospital while already suffering from an autoimmune flare. I was isolated for a week, hazmat suits, the works. Lost 15lbs in the hospital and had to take antibiotics for 3 months to make sure any resistant spores were ki
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Show HN: Improving HN Who Wants to Be Hired with ChatGPT(hnjobs.u-turn.dev)
3 points by nevernude 3y ago|0 comments
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by nevernude 4y ago
Unfortunately a number of those APIs are still not available on iOS and have seen little to no traction[1] 1. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593
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by nevernude 4y ago
Yes, we do hold payments for projects and pay them out monthly. However if you don't want to claim your funds on StackAid but do accept donations elsewhere, we will use those service to pay you out instead. Running the tool offline wou
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by nevernude 4y ago
Sure, but you (maybe not you specifically) _solve problems_ by using a lot of open source. Your ability to do your job and get paid depends on the labor of others. Why not compensate them for it.
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by nevernude 4y ago
I see a lot comments here suggesting the he should just pack his bags and get a corporate gig. How many other great open source projects will we miss out on because developers see this advice and not even bother in the first place.
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by nevernude 4y ago
At this risk of some self promotion, we developed StackAid ( https://stackaid.us ) to help fund the long tail of open source because of the exact problems you mentioned. People only tend to remember the popular/direct depende
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by nevernude 4y ago
But the thing is he DID ask for help, quite a few times and was only met with the hate and vitriol you mentioned. Depressing indeed.
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StackAid now supporting Go, Python, Rust, and more(stackaid.us)
3 points by nevernude 4y ago|0 comments
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by nevernude 4y ago
Obviously I’m biased because I have skin in the game but articles like this really do a disservice for getting maintainers paid, something the author purports to support, because it gives people yet another excuse not to fund maintainers an
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50M weekly download package no longer has open source repository(twitter.com)
6 points by nevernude 4y ago|0 comments
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by nevernude 4y ago
There is another, opposite incentive at play which is to reduce the number of dependencies you have so that you receive more funding.
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by nevernude 4y ago
That is effectively what happens. Unclaimed funds are reallocated after a few months to projects that have been claimed. Like you said, that's a good incentive to sign up sooner rather than later.
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by nevernude 4y ago
To answer your first question, you give StackAid access to repositories that you own (private or public) and we discover the dependencies you use automatically. Those dependencies are what is funded by your monthly subscription. Let's
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by nevernude 4y ago
Hey, we are located in the US based in Seattle and San Francisco and incorporated as an LLC. Our other founder has more of a social media[1] presence if that's helpful. We use Stripe to process credit card payments as well as to pay ou
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by nevernude 4y ago
Fair point. There will be a longer grace period initially while we work on the awareness of StackAid.
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by nevernude 4y ago
There is no Stackaid dependency to install. We are treated as an implicit direct dependency for the purpose of calculating the fee we collect. If you have 19 direct dependencies, StackAid will be the 20th, and get 5% of your total subscript
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by nevernude 4y ago
StackAid founder here. There are a couple of questions that keep coming up that I thought I would address in one place. - People don't want to give money to Stripe, Meta, etc since their projects are already well funded by corporations
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by nevernude 4y ago
We thought long and hard about how people could game the system but ultimately it will be quite difficult because you still have to convince a large number of developers to actually use and depend on your project. And since the flow of dona
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by nevernude 4y ago
For a $10/month donation yes our max take would be $0.75. The example on the homepage is for a $20/month subscription.
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by nevernude 4y ago
Appreciate the feedback. In case you didn't see it already, we take a different approach to getting paid[1] that we think is more equitable. You can also use our GitHub action to publish a stackaid.json file with your dependencies to a
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by nevernude 4y ago
If stripe doesn’t want to participate (likely) their funds are reallocated. They also have the option to pass on funds to their dependencies
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by nevernude 4y ago
On an individual level allocation may seem a bit lopsided but, in aggregate, useful and popular projects will receive more funding. Commercial projects can either not claim their funds (which will be reallocated), or elect to pass their fun
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by nevernude 4y ago
I don't think it will be a major concern. A couple of thoughts: - We built a simulation[1] of the NPM ecosystem to see how funds would be allocated. Frivolous projects did not see any significant funding. - As I mentioned in other comm
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by nevernude 4y ago
Yes, projects with unclaimed funds have a notice at the top of their page. I think there is also an opportunity for us to show you which of your dependencies have been claimed in your dashboard.
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by nevernude 4y ago
Absolutely. We'd like to support GitLab and Bitbucket next but had to pick a starting point and GitHub was an obvious choice. If there are other providers you think we should pursue, let me know.
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by nevernude 4y ago
Are you thinking of Flossbank[1]? We are currently structured as an LLC. Are there specific concerns you have that would prevent you from using StackAid because of that choice? Our hope is that our actions and being good stewards of funding
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by nevernude 4y ago
Thanks! You can follow our other founder on twitter @dudley or our official account @stackaid. If you sign up for an invite we'll keep you posted on new developments as well.
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by nevernude 4y ago
Good question. There are a few factors that I think will mitigate this concern. - You still have to get developers to use and depend on these new projects. - Allocation happens on a per subscription basis, so to realistically take advantage
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by nevernude 4y ago
Yes you can create one manually. If I'm understanding you correctly, private organizations you add to a stackaid.json file will be ignored. Our focus is on funding open source. But if you mean, can you commit a stackaid.json file in a

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