Episode 53

thanks.dev with Armin Nehzat

A more sustainable sponsoring model with thanks.dev and Armin Nehzat

February 28, 202340m 42s

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Today we don’t talk about a specific Open Source project, but about a tool that can help us build a more sustainable ecosystem: thanks.dev.

I have the pleasure to have on stage Armin Nehzat, Growth Officer of thanks.dev, a donation and sponsoring platform for open-source projects.

The key feature of thanks.dev is how it manages to scan your dependency tree and discovers all the projects you build on top, so you can split your donations to all of them. Similarly as a maintainer, you can get a fraction of a donation, even if you’re down in the dependency chain of someone else.

Join us in this episode as Armin walk us through the challenges of connecting donors with maintainers in a sustainable way.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

00.00 Intro
00.45 Episode Start
01.27 Armin’s Introduction
02.43 What is thanks.dev?
03.46 The model behind thanks.dev
05.45 Donating to transitive dependencies
07.38 Single donors vs companies
09.51 Microdonations
11.02 Why should a maintainer join thanks.dev
12.50 Transfering donations
13.49 Which languages you support?
15.25 Kotlin & the dependency graph
17.20 Renovate bot
18.13 Is thanks.dev open source?
19.07 How many maintainers joined thanks.dev?
20.00 Finding maintainers
21.41 Maintainers and self promotion
23.04 Big players already on the platform
24.10 The story behind thanks.dev
25.47 The ‘Open Source Support’ fee
26.54 How is developing thanks.dev?
27.59 The future of thanks.dev
30.50 Premium features for supporters
35.04 Further reading
36.36 Burnout in the OSS community
39.07 Where people can find you online?

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