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Maybe it could be a parawork relationship instead of parasocial, like sponsors voting on new features and faster response to issues.

Just having a paid priority issue section or a direct line contact to the core dev would be worth paying for. It seems to work with Youtube superchats and Twitch messages.

Phabricator has been doing that for years (but more extreme - you can't even submit it comment on bugs without paying) and I think they're the only open source project my company gives money to. Definitely a reasonable option.

I would pay for specific features or bug fixes in software, as a user that's more important, than the lerson implementing it, though people are still very important.

There are so many tiny things that bug me when I'm using my devices, it would be great to pay to improve some of them.

Someone posted this just yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25879238

It’s really cool, I will try it. It’s great, as I don’t have to wait for the maintainer to set it up.

Don't we?

I can name a few Ruby celebrities off the top of my head:

- Matz

- TenderLove (Aaron Patterson)

- DHH

- _why (Jonathan Gillette)