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Ask HN: Popular OSS that became its maintainers day-job?

5 points| dvdhnt | 9 years ago

After the demise of Cyanogen, I'm wondering what open source projects grew into paying, full time jobs for its maintainers?

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[+] galfarragem|9 years ago|reply
Vue.

'The Vue.js patreon campaign now has over $8,000 monthly pledge from the community and sponsors. It is absolutely amazing to be able to work full-time on an open source project that I am genuinely passionate about, and for that I am forever grateful to all the supporters.'

[1] https://medium.com/the-vue-point/the-state-of-vue-1655e10a34...

[+] dvdhnt|9 years ago|reply
Nice one, and relevant since I was just reading this HN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13263852

There are a lot of nice events/history going on around front-end frameworks like Vue, React, etc. - the Inferno creator being hired by FB, React Fiber coming soon, Angular 2 being so different, Vue growing right alongside React as a competitor/peer.

It's a good time to know javascript.

[+] luminousbit|9 years ago|reply
Sidekiq by Mike Perham
[+] dvdhnt|9 years ago|reply
That's a good one. I love that using free Sidekiq works just fine and that Pro is nice-to-have but not essential.