https://github.com/assemblymade/coderwall/pulse/monthly
And in this case the guy gets a much smaller piece of the pie than a founder would.
Too Little incentive for the kind of people you need in a startup.
A startup founder is (in many cases) looking for a massive payoff by placing a bet in the equity bubble lottery, with a acquihire fallback.
Assembly doesn't address the same use-case as founding a company, and while it's ostensibly aimed at potential "founders", I doubt many people will conflate collaborating via Assembly and a creating a startup.
Its a community effort so some people have more time then others in a month and products on Assembly each have their own ebb and flow. It does look like just3ws did alot in October but those are probably mostly merge commits (just3ws is on the Core Team). All the partners still shared in last month's proceeds for their previous contributions though.
Disclosure: I work on Assembly
This has always been true - in corporations, in teams within corporations and in startups.
I think you should evolve your product to reflect and incentivize this rather than fight it. Give the core guys the most equity - figure out a good way to calculate who those people are. Its a problem that mankind has been trying to solve forever.
Instead of focussing on community, focus on creating a system that is secure for someone to start working immediately with the core-team. With deep git integration you could have somethign worthwhile there.
Is community not part of the answer to that problem?