87 points Brysonbw | 2 comments | 02 Apr 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source

How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?

1. mvieira38 ◴[02 Apr 25 19:08 UTC] No.43560323[source]▶

Many projects go the VC route and pitch a business model built on the back of the open source stuff. Look at Astral, for example, where ruff and uv are 100% open source but they are VC backed. Admittedly not the dream scenario having to deal with finance people while working FOSS

replies(1): >>43561043 #

2. blatantly ◴[02 Apr 25 20:18 UTC] No.43561043[source]▶

>>43560323 (TP) #

A good chunkn of YC seems to be this model.

↑

Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?