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