# nayafia/lemonade-stand

A handy guide to financial support for open source

Repository: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lemonade-stand
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: money, sponsorships, funding, content, lists, documentation, community
Last push: 2025-08-06T23:25:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 35, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3731, "days_push": 392, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7687, forks 354 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:02.411367+00:00)

## What it is
A curated guide listing ways to financially support open source work, from donation buttons and crowdfunding to open core and venture capital. It catalogs funding models with real examples, pros, and cons for maintainers and contributors.

## Use cases
- find funding for my open source project
- how do open source maintainers get paid
- compare open source monetization models
- set up sponsorships or donations for a repo
- learn about open core and paid license models
- ways to make money from open source work

## When to choose
- you maintain or contribute to an open source project and want to explore funding options
- you want real-world examples of each funding model with tradeoffs

## When to avoid
- you need a tool or service to process payments rather than guidance
- you want legal or tax advice for a specific jurisdiction

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: documentation
- domain: developer-tools, documentation
- platform: -
- tags: open-source-funding, sponsorships, guide, monetization, community, open-source, web

## Member repositories
- nayafia/lemonade-stand (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.411367+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:36:01.609812+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.411367+00:00, sha f211b5521aed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.