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Re:Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open ... by pnako on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:52PM (#21330342)
My understanding was that you would vet open source contributors so they can support their own stuff. So looking at GitHub, commits, etc.

Otherwise your platform is really a way for random people to get money (nothing wrong with that) while the actual maintainers are busy writing code, reviewing tickets, etc.

I know monetizing open source is terribly difficult so I don't want to sound too negative.

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Re:Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open ... by Aearnus on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:58AM (#21342570)
> My understanding was that you would vet open source contributors so they can support their own stuff. So looking at GitHub, commits, etc

Ideally, this is the plan.

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