Isn't that what tidelift [1] is doing?
That is totally worth day 10% of the value of the product!
It won't work: this company will eventually crank up their fees to 30+% of the value.
A lot of software/B2B sales are procured through a channel whose primary purpose is an existing business relationship with the company you're trying to sell to.
They take a % as a transaction fee. Anywhere from 10-30%, depending.
They exist. They suck, they all suck... and I say this as a vendor "procured" by these companies.
It's a necessary evil, one that's ripe for disruption.
> Business idea: If there was a single corporate intermediatory who would handle all this sitting somewhere we could create a supply agreement with and funnel the cash through to the right people we could probably deal with it.
Isn't that exactly what Github does through its Sponsors program? I think I only handle two endpoints these days: Github Sponsors and Clojurists Together. Github works very well, and they will even fold/consolidate new sponsorships into your existing invoices as you add them over time.
I don't think "overhead" is a valid excuse anymore.
I'm sure it's not the only reason to choose open-source tech.
At least with open-source projects you can read, patch, clone or fork the source
Business idea: If there was a single corporate intermediatory who would handle all this sitting somewhere we could create a supply agreement with and funnel the cash through to the right people we could probably deal with it. We currently do this via AWS marketplace regularly so we don't have to deal with the paperwork.