Seeing one other company on github.com/sponsors/nfriedly, glad we could triple your sponsors. :D P.S. There might be more on Thanks.dev.
Cheers!
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Cheers!
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There's a bit of a story behind the first sponsor, Zuplo: They wanted to sponsor one specific project of mine, express-rate-limit, and I almost just turned them down. I have a decent day job, and didn't feel like I needed it.
But, express-rate-limit had received a ton of contributions from another individual, gamemaker1, to the point that I had already given him contributor access to the repo. So, I decided to ask if he wanted it before turning Zuplo down. He persuaded me to split it with him.
Once we tried to accept, we learned that he is ineligible to sign up for most sponsorship/giving platforms because he is currently a minor. So, right now the full amount comes to me and then I transfer half from my bank account to his.
We haven't done any major functional changes to express-rate-limit since accepting sponsorship, but we have made a lot of small improvements since then and I think the sponsorship deserves some credit for encouraging that.