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I just launched a SaaS to help Open Source Maintainers Get Paid. Am I crazy?

Been watching from the outside for a few months but about 3 weeks ago I launched https://gitstore.app with @jasonadriaan which allows developers to charge people to access their code – open source and private repos supported.

We integrate with Stripe and Github and make the pro

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    I've some questions about this:

    How does this work for already open-source projects? It's basically like a donation? For private repos, is access programmatically granted to subscribers? You talk about tagging releases to provides paying customers with updates, but how do they actually receive that code?

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      For OSS it would work like a donation, but a recurring monthly one, or a single payment.

      For private repos, we programmatically ensure that paying customers have valid private keys

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      Access is managed using read-only deploy keys to the repository. A user pays you and we make sure they have deploy keys for your repository. It can be a private or public repo sitting on Github.

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    I like the idea as well as the landing page, so I'll say that you are not crazy at all. :)

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    This already exists, it was funded by YCombinator this year. I can't remember the name, but you might search for it.

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      If you find it I’d love to see their model.

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