Today I just got hired to work on an open source company. I could not be happier, I may not be rich but I can work at something I love in public, with great team mates, and in an async-remote first company with little to no office politics or mandatory all hands meetings.
It would be 100x times harder for me to get paid via small sponsorships like this.
There's hundreds of YC companies building open source, look for them, apply to the ones you like. Enjoy.
If you're looking at this want to get paid to work in public – I'd love to hire some TypeScript contractors to work on https://github.com/outline/outline – hmu!