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People could do something similar for open source projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736006

tip4commit tried it in 2014, and it didn't go down so well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969

Tidelift is the latest attempt at this: https://tidelift.com/

They don't adequately explain what happens if a project has no 'lifters' and it sounds like it could have the same problems as Brave.