Ask HN: How are you monetizing your OSS project?

Hey folks, question -- my buddy and I are working on a new OSS project that's been taking off recently and we're starting to gain some traction.

It's taking up A LOT of our time.

This is cool enough where we're actually considering quitting our day jobs to maintain it, but we still need to somehow feed ourselves...

I'm curious if there are other OSS maintainers here who have done it before and can give us their two cents (no pun intended) on monetization?

Do we ask for donations? patreon? just stick to sponsorships? Or is there another way we're missing (short of opening a company around it, which we'd rather not do for reasons out of the scope of this post).

Any help appreciated!