[didip]

Exactly this. Word by word. Some of my OSS projects got popular accidentally and oh boy… pain in the butt for real.

And for little benefits to myself. Hitting HN front page or r/programming was nice for my ego. But that’s about it.

[MasterScrat]

Exactly - best case scenario is Reddit/HN front page with a cool project you enjoyed working on, have some nice conversations there, reach a few 100s stars which look good on your CV, and that’s it.

If you expect more long term support you better be paying me for my time.

[jimnotgym]

Maybe that is the answer. Put a note in your readme setting out your terms.

1) If you want to send a PR we charge $1000 to review them. This is no guarantee that we will merge. We will quote any further costs needed after a review.

2) Feature requests should be accompanied by a $250 quotation fee. Then we will scope and quote what is required to do your feature. If your feature would compromise the project, or is impractical a started we retain the right to refuse to quote or suggest more work is required. The $250 fee is non returnable.

Something like that?