GitHub Sponsors - Get paid to build what you love on GitHub

Glad to see GitHub experimenting with this. This also ties into their seemingly increased focus on community.

Huuuuge! I like it. Curious to know what OpenCollective CEO think about it

Such a great way to support the open-source community 🙌

Woah this is huge news! Such a welcome addition to Github, now you can potentially get paid for pursuing your code side-passion

Lol, this is a note of minne from yesterday, seems github got there first, I'm glad I didn't start coding: What if GitHub Stars = Money Problem? I might want to give back to open source, but I’m too ignorant or lazy to actually do it. Create an indie platform that lets you create a one time or subscription donation to all your GitHub innteractions based on Stars, issues open, etc… If I have 1000 Stars and donate 100 dollars, each repo would get 10 cents, if 10 more people have starred the same repo than I have, the repo owner would get 1 dollar. So if she or he has 1000 stars, that’d mean she or he gets 100$ Stars are not so meaningless anymore. After first donation to a new repo, open an issue encouraging to get to minimum payout amount faster by pushing a badge into readme as a PR.

you can build a meaningful business by verticalizing patreon AND building it in to where "fans" hang out. opencollective, good. github sponsors, better. github is waiving fees and matching up to $5k for the first year.

Congrats Nadia and entire GitHub team! this is a big deal

A great news for open-source community 👏 Wondering how it gonna affect OpenCollective 🤔

Seems like a big step for open source community. I was wondering how some people get sponsored for their open source work. Hope to see this as a way to make it easier both to understand and actually achieve.

Fantastic idea, I wish it great success and wide adoption