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Dan Aramov ran Patron campaign to raise money to work on developing Redux.js full time https://web.archive.org/web/20150721215514/https://www.patre...

And then there's Andrew Godwin raising £17,952 to work on Schema Migrations in Django https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-mig...

Asking for money for open source software does work.

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Not to mention that Tom Christie raised £32,650 for DRF 3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... :)

Both of those developers asked the community for money. They should have asked the companies that use their projects directly. I world imagine they'd hey far better results that way.

> They should have asked the companies that use their projects directly. I world imagine they'd hey far better results that way.

Better results? Both efforts were funded almost immediately and well in excess of what was being asked for.

I think these two cases are great examples of how this could work.

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