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

87 points Brysonbw | 1 comments | 02 Apr 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
1. bravetraveler ◴[02 Apr 25 19:35 UTC] No.43560625[source]▶
In my time off, every business has made it annoyingly difficult to do this with any official capacity. I want to blame the fiefdom crafting...

The 'subtext' here is that I haven't found it particularly ~~profitable~~ sustainable by itself