StackAid

Congrats guys and I wish you succeed with this project! This is the fist time I see a pyramid scheme that's actually a good thing :D

Super fantastic idea. Signed up. Thanks for sharing!

I think this is an awesome idea, do you have a newsletter or twitter that I can follow for updates?

I love this idea. I just tried with a package.json of mine and 33% of the money seems to go to Microsoft/TypeScript, which seems odd for a bunch of reasons: they don't seem to…

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that the automatic allocation model would make logical sense for many of my projects. Some of my dependencies are complicated, critical,…

I think the automated allocation is the major concern here. Otherwise, a good model.

Super interesting, however you need an option for "this company commercially backs this repo so there is no need to donate". Let's be honest, it's hard for me to justify giving a…

Seems interesting... But I wouldn't want to waste my donation to a multi-billion dollar company like stripe who should be paying for their own client library development, which…

StackAid founder here. There are a couple of questions that keep coming up that I thought I would address in one place. - People don't want to give money to Stripe, Meta, etc…

How do you deal with the issue that a project might split itself in multiple modular parts to maximize the income from this scheme? If StackAid becomes popular, I could see…

This is a well executed idea, the minus is that it is going to incentivize npm managers to create more and more spammy packages. Isn't there a risk that the creators of is-odd,…

> So we built StackAid, a service that automatically discovers and funds your direct and indirect (second order) open source dependencies with a monthly subscription. Just to…

Could be that the model is more sophisticated that the quoted text below suggests, but if it isn't ... Well, let's say I maintain a popular package SexyAndUseful, I sign up with…

The idea is nice, but it seems heavily reliant on GitHub: > Owners of open source projects can claim their repositories by installing the StackAid GitHub app. As part of the…

And pay 7.5%(!) of it to a company based in the US. When reallocating funds back after numerous project won't install some github app to claim the money collected on their…

The idea is nice, but it seems heavily reliant on GitHub: > Owners of open source projects can claim their repositories by installing the StackAid GitHub app. As part of the…

what's the thinking around supporting projects that aren't node based? I've got tons of dependencies but none of them involve JS. Also, what many node devs have multiple projects…

something similar for java dependencies?

The idea is nice, but it seems heavily reliant on GitHub: > Owners of open source projects can claim their repositories by installing the StackAid GitHub app. As part of the…

[Edit: Wrong, see replies] I love the idea, but the math doesn't seem to check out on the simulation: The sum of the donation greatly exceeds the donated sum, even on the example…

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that the automatic allocation model would make logical sense for many of my projects. Some of my dependencies are complicated, critical,…

This kind of looks like https://flattr.com/ but specifically for dev/dependencies. Not sure I like that there's "only" a two-month limit in which funds can be claimed, though.…

If a library author or maintainer isn't a Stackaid user, what happens to their allocated funds?

And pay 7.5%(!) of it to a company based in the US. When reallocating funds back after numerous project won't install some github app to claim the money collected on their…

How are you dealing with tax implications?

After a few months if the funds aren't claimed we will reallocate them to a subscriber's other direct dependencies. For the time being, if you accepting funds via GitHub…

This sounds a lot like Tidelift, without their enterprise supply chain features?

Are you thinking of Flossbank[1]? We are currently structured as an LLC. Are there specific concerns you have that would prevent you from using StackAid because of that choice?…

We tried something similar in the past: https://github.com/protontypes/LibreSelery Donation were distributed entirely through the CoinBase api by sending emails to each developer…

This is really cool. Is there a way to use this with Rust, yet? I'd be interested to donate say $15/m and then specify repos of mine, maybe mixed with some manually specified…