The dawn of sponsorware (Changelog Interviews #381)

Published: Feb. 17, 2020, 10 p.m.

b'Caleb Porzio is the creator & maintainer of Livewire, AlpineJS, and more. His latest open source endeavor was announced as \\u201csponsorware\\u201d, which means it lived in a private repo (only available to Caleb\\u2019s GitHub Sponsors) until he hit a set sponsorship threshold, at which point it was open sourced. On this episode, we talk through this sponsorware experiment in-depth. We learn how he dreamt it up, how it went (spoiler: very well), and how he had to change his mindset on 2 things in order to make sustainability possible.'