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EmailEngine App Landing Page
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EmailEngine App

EmailEngine is an email client but for apps, not people. It connects to the user's email server, translates REST API requests from the app to IMAP and SMTP commands, and sends webhooks for changes like new or deleted emails.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- €795.0 / Annually (Unlimited self hosted instances)
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The Tidelift Subscription Landing Page

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The Tidelift Subscription

Pro developers get assurances. OSS maintainers get paid.

This is similar in spirit with what https://tidelift.com is trying to do. I'm not convinced this will work at scale. At the end of the day, open source software is different than commercial software is what you're proposing.

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Flattr Landing Page

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Flattr

Help the open and free web flourish. Support creators by paying for their free content.

Couldn't we mash something like [flattr](https://flattr.com/) into the package managers ( npm, pip, cpan etc.)? That would give the companies/users an option of regularly contributing a fixed budget to x FOSS projects without having to track down who/where/how for each dependency. The org collecting the micro payments distributes once a month to project maintainers with commit privileges. For static libs, the project maintainers recursively use the same mechanism, the money trickles all the way down the dependency tree.

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