Echoes HQ VS GitHub Sponsors

Roughly 18 months ago I took the jump of leaving my CTO job managing 600 engineers to start Echoes HQ, my first company as a founder. This post is a personal reflection of what I've learned and what surprised me in that transition, in no particular order. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

I have many opinions on that topic, but disclaimer: I'm building a company and a product around those ideas. It's called Echoes (https://echoeshq.com) and I covered some of the challenges you described in this post. Source: almost 2 years ago

Today with Echoes, which integrates with GitHub (among others) to help engineering leaders create high performing organizations. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

Hi HN! I’m Arnaud, founder of Echoes HQ (https://echoeshq.com). We build dashboards on the activity of engineering teams, focusing on the value of engineering work. I’m passionate about developer empowerment and building engineering organizations. This is what got me into engineering management in the first place, and why I later joined Docker to lead the core team. Throughout my career I’ve come to realize that... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Another great way to contribute to the open-source community is by sponsoring projects that your company uses. GitHub Sponsors makes it easy for you to financially support projects or even contributors in a very public way. - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

GitHub Sponsors was launched five years ago. For several years it was available only in a limited number of countries, but two years ago I could also join. I got a few sponsors, but nothing substantial came out of it. Now I'd like to invest some time an energy understanding it and trying to figure out how could I increase the monthly sponsorship I receive. - Source: dev.to / 25 days ago

> Sustainability and Monetization: How can open-source projects develop sustainable business models without compromising their core principles? GitHub has its Sponsors program[0]. You can still contribute code safe in the knowledge that you can bring home the bacon if you've managed to get people to sponsor you. [0] https://github.com/sponsors > Dependency and Corporate... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

A few alternatives for micro donations that people have mentioned: https://ko-fi.com/ https://github.com/sponsors https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ Any others, let me know. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

There have been steps forward in the direction of making donation easier: https://github.com/sponsors , which can serve as a "fiscal host." The advantage here is that the default rule at law for how a group of developers working together will be treated is partnership, which means joint and several liability. Working with a fiscal host partitions individual liability from group liability. But there are still open... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago