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paxystoday at 4:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Maintainers: You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months.

How many total developers does that cover? 100? How many of them aren't already corporate employees?

And also

> 6 months of free Claude Max 20x

So basically a free trial.

When Github Copilot first launched they gave Pro subscriptions to everyone that regularly committed to a public repo, regardless of the number of stars or downloads, and kept renewing it indefinitely. I don't know if that program is still around but it was amazing to get to try out some early LLM coding tools for open source development.


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mickael-kerjeantoday at 4:15 PM

A lot more than a 100, for once I'm one of those https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

flaviolivolsitoday at 4:19 PM

Github is Microsoft. MS has a war chest big enough not to care if they throw away money for customer acquisition

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