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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: 0.206s | source

How would one go about being a 'rogue' OSS contributor so to speak? Live off of donations, bounties, hackathons, ect?
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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
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1. blatantly ◴[02 Apr 25 20:18 UTC] No.43561043[source]▶
A good chunkn of YC seems to be this model.