GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries

Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by stared on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:08PM (#21449242)

I got approved as well: https://github.com/sponsors/stared/

It looks like a minimalistic Patreon (intro + tiers + posts for the sponsors). While I like the clean design, it misses the motivating parts:

- Listing the number of sponsors (oh, other people support them too!)

- Goals.

Personally, I don't count to get any suitable income. At the same time, I hoped to get motivation - people caring about my projects enough to pay $2.

I ended up getting hundreds of likes on FB + LinkedIn, I got first nothing (it was disheartening) and then 2 sponsors (well, I am grateful to them).

Meanwhile, a few times I got invited for an open-source project thanks to my other open source project (now I am at CQT, Singapore invited to develop an open-source Quantum Game 2.0)!

So my question is: even within open-source, is crowdsponsoring a viable model?

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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by sinstein on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:04AM (#21450801)

It does list the number of sponsors - https://imgur.com/a/46u0ZIz

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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by stared on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:07AM (#21451063)

Yes, but not per tier.

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