Hi, I'm François, an engineer at Open Collective and this is one of my first projects there.
When I joined Open Collective, I was excited to see so many great Open Source projects (like Babel, Webpack, etc ...) managing their financing on the platform. However, it was also quickly clear to me that most users of these Open Source projects have absolutely no idea about their efforts to become financially sustainable.
Discussing this problem within the team, we thought scanning for dependencies (such as package.json and composer.json) would be a simple way of matching users with projects, BackYourStack was born.
We started this for the community to use and own. It's Open Source itself and we would love to provide more detection patterns, also feature other financing strategies (outside of Open Collective). Looking forward to your feedback!
When I joined Open Collective, I was excited to see so many great Open Source projects (like Babel, Webpack, etc ...) managing their financing on the platform. However, it was also quickly clear to me that most users of these Open Source projects have absolutely no idea about their efforts to become financially sustainable.
Discussing this problem within the team, we thought scanning for dependencies (such as package.json and composer.json) would be a simple way of matching users with projects, BackYourStack was born.
We started this for the community to use and own. It's Open Source itself and we would love to provide more detection patterns, also feature other financing strategies (outside of Open Collective). Looking forward to your feedback!