So how do you crowd source a project worth keeping right now? A tool that poisons data for Google analytics would hardly be funded by them. At a certain point we simply cannot allow companies to be the only ones holding the reigns.
Most efforts do seem focused on corporate open-source. The under-funding of that stuff is indeed an issue. But it doesn't result in real public goods that treat the public well if it's all upstream stuff that only serves to make proprietary downstream end-user products.
We could certainly use help from anyone who would like to do some project management. In general, we have https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/community/how-to-help
We have weekly audio meetings and have Matrix and IRC discussions, and people are welcome to pop in.
Not sure if these are the things you were asking about
In the mean time, if your service can only exist as something outside the public domain, I don't think people will complain much if you're honest in your communications about it.