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Substack
Substack lets writers and creators sell paid newsletters, memberships, and other subscription publishing products.
Status
Status supports open source contributors through ecosystem funding, grants, and public-good crypto initiatives.
Staroid
Staroid is a hosting platform that turns open source projects into running services to fund project contributors.
SourceCred
SourceCred is an open source system for measuring contributions and distributing rewards inside communities.
Software in the Public Interest
A non-profit organization to help organizations develop and distribute open hardware and software.
Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit fiscal sponsor and services organization for free and open source software projects.
Scarf
Scarf helps open source maintainers and companies measure package usage and identify commercial leads from OSS adoption.
Saasify
Saasify was a toolkit and hosted service for turning APIs or serverless functions into SaaS products with billing, docs, and a marketing site.
Pledgecamp
Pledgecamp is a blockchain-oriented crowdfunding project built around escrow, backer insurance, and smart-contract infrastructure.
Patreon
Patreon helps creators run membership businesses with recurring subscriptions, communities, and one-time digital sales.
Open Source Coin
Oscoin was a proposal for a decentralized network and economic layer designed to support open source collaboration and value redistribution.
Open Gift
OpenGift lets companies and developers fund software challenges and earn from collective financing of open source work.
Open Collective
Open Collective gives groups a transparent way to raise, hold, and spend money with public budgets and expense workflows.
NLnet
NLnet funds people and organizations building open source, open standards, open hardware, and other digital commons technologies.
MemberSpace
MemberSpace lets website owners put memberships, subscriptions, and other paid access controls around content and communities.
Lyfevest
Lyfevest was pitched as a subscription service for connecting enterprise users of open source with the contributors building those projects.
License Zero
License Zero was a dual-licensing toolchain for selling paid commercial-use permissions for open source software.
Liberapay
Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform designed for funding creators, projects, and other commons-oriented work.
Leanpub
Leanpub is a self-publishing platform for selling in-progress and finished ebooks and online courses.
Ko-fi
Ko-fi lets creators accept tips, memberships, commissions, and product sales directly into their own payment accounts.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter helps creators raise all-or-nothing campaign funding for products, creative work, and other launch-style projects.
Kauri
Kauri was a decentralized technical knowledge base for Ethereum developers that rewarded contributors for tutorials and documentation.
Katalyse
Katalyse was a token-sale and fundraising platform for crypto projects that wanted ICO launch, listing, and investor-onboarding support.
IT Sphere
IT Sphere was a blockchain-oriented platform that pitched itself as a meeting point for developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and technical experts.
Issue Hunt
IssueHunt lets maintainers fund GitHub issues and lets contributors earn rewards by resolving them.
IndieMaker
Indiemaker is a marketplace for buying and selling side projects, micro-SaaS products, domains, and small online businesses.
Indiegogo
Indiegogo is a mainstream crowdfunding platform for campaigns, pre-orders, and post-campaign sales through InDemand.
Houdini
Houdini is a self-hosted open source fundraising stack for nonprofits and NGOs.
Hopsie
Hopsie is a nonprofit fundraising platform for donation forms, campaigns, donor management, and follow-up email workflows.
Hit Chain
HitChain, later rebranded to HitHub, was a decentralized developer community that mixed code collaboration, token incentives, and crypto funding ideas.
Hacken Proof
HackenProof is a web3-focused bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform for crypto projects.
Goteo
Goteo is an open source civic crowdfunding platform for projects that aim to create social, commons-based, or public-interest value.
Giveth
Giveth is a crypto-native donation platform for nonprofits, social-impact work, and public-goods projects.
Gitstore
Gitstore was a storefront for selling access to repositories, packages, and other developer assets through subscription or one-time purchase plans.
Gitpay
Gitpay is an open source issue-bounty platform for Git-based projects with built-in payment and assignment workflows.
GitHub Sponsors
GitHub Sponsors lets developers and organizations financially support the open source people and projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
GitFund
GitFund was an issue-prioritization and sponsorship experiment that let supporters donate against specific GitHub feature requests.
Gitcoin
Gitcoin runs web3-native grant rounds and other funding mechanisms for public-goods and Ethereum ecosystem projects.
Fundition
Fundition was a blockchain-based crowdfunding platform built around Steem and Tron with a no-fee pitch for founders and backers.
Fund Request
FundRequest is a decentralized request marketplace where projects can attach token funding to issues, fixes, and other developer tasks.
Free and Open Source Software Audit
FOSSA was an EU-backed programme for funding security audits, bug bounties, and related support for critical open source software.
FOSS Pay
FOSS Pay was a self-hosted donation collection tool for groups and maintainers who wanted Stripe-backed payments without a hosted marketplace.
Flattr
Flattr was a micro-donation platform that let users support multiple creators through one subscription or one-off donations.
EthicalAds
EthicalAds is a developer-focused ad network for documentation sites, technical blogs, and other publisher properties with technical audiences.
Ellcrys
Ellcrys was a decentralized git-hosting and software-ownership protocol that aimed to combine collaboration, governance, and revenue sharing.
Core Infrastructure Initiative
A Linux Foundation initiative to collaboratively identify, fund and support critical elements of the global information infrastructure that are in need of assistance.
Community Bridge
Community Bridge, now part of LFX Crowdfunding, lets open source projects raise donations and reimburse contributors through a Linux Foundation-managed platform.
CommitChange
CommitChange is an all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform for donations, campaigns, events, and donor management.
Coinlancer
Coinlancer was a blockchain-based freelance marketplace for remote service work and escrowed payments.
CodeFund
CodeFund was an ethical advertising network that shared revenue with open source projects and developer-focused websites.
CodeBuddy
CodeBuddy is a software-development services business that combines productized engineering help with an AI-assisted build workflow.
Carbon Ads
Carbon Ads is a curated advertising network that helps developer and creator sites monetize through native ads.
Buy Me a Coffee
Buy Me a Coffee lets creators accept tips, memberships, and product sales through a lightweight profile page.
Bugmark
Bugmark was an experimental platform for applying prediction-market mechanics to open source issue funding.
Bounties Network
Bounties Network is a decentralized marketplace for posting tasks and paying contributors with Ethereum-based bounties.
Beerpay
Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.
BackYourStack
BackYourStack scans your dependencies and surfaces the open source projects in your stack that are already set up to receive funding.
AWS Promotional Credit
AWS provides cloud credits to eligible open source projects to offset infrastructure costs such as CI, storage, and testing.
Apt-get Shirt
Apt-get Shirt sold project-themed merchandise and donated part of each sale to the represented open source project.
Amazon Smile
Amazon donates 0.5% of the eligible net purchase price to the charitable organisation of choice, such as OSS foundations.