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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by cavneb on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:40PM (#15971810)
Over the past handful of months, I've built up the company Code Sponsor (https://codesponsor.io). In December, I had to shut it down due to the inability to continue on GitHub.

Here's an article I published on why funding open source is difficult: https://medium.com/@codesponsor/why-funding-open-source-is-h...

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by moeamaya on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @07:17PM (#15975197)
When I saw this topic pop up on HN, I instinctively went to check my CodeSponsor dashboard and saw no activity.

Didn't think too much of it and came back here and saw the news :( That's too bad Github decided against continuing the service, it's such a great way for developers to maintain their roles and still provide a bit of funding. Good luck on your next version!

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Re:Funding Yourself as a Free Software Developer by tyil on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:45PM (#15974122)
I'll give it a read and see if I can incorporate anything!
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