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

Offer it as a commercial hosted service that you build on top of it. You can charge per use or per time period.

Great suggestion. And decline the inevitable decision to sacrifice or hinder open-source functionality to bolster your cloud ambitions.

You can look at Gatsby for a lesson here. They prioritized their team building the cloud offering and prioritized Gatsby Cloud for features that everyone was asking for like incremental builds, allowing Next to gain a foothold.

Then they sold to Netlify which has fully killed it. Will never forgive Netlify for that.