Ask HN: How to contact sponsors for Open Source?

[franciscop]

I am creating https://serverjs.io/ and would love to have some sponsors [1] to assure that I can maintain the project long-term (while at the same time validating the demand). My thinking was:

0. Great idea, initial prototype and a track of open source commitment and deliverables [2] => done 1. Find mid-large companies interested in Node.js => done 2. Contact those companies to offer sponsorship with perks => HOW? 3. Keep working and improving the project

The problem is that those companies that can drop some money on a project like this seems like a unreachable fortification when trying to contact them. Some times I even have to go through many loops even just to get a generic support email.

I have also tried contacting few individuals who work at some of those companies with no answer at all.

So two questions:

- Who/what channel to contact companies in Node.js world committed to OSS.

- How to properly communicate this? I do not want to SPAM anyone, just letting them know what I am working on and how it can benefit them for sponsoring server.js

Notes: assume I am effectively isolated from anyone working at a big tech company since I am from Spain and the only US devs I know are freelancers as well.

[1] https://serverjs.io/sponsor/

[2] https://github.com/franciscop/

[mtmail]

Have a look at https://opencollective.com/ as well.

I wonder how you will deal with taxes. You offer a service (number of hours) against payment and registered as Ltd (for profit).

[franciscop → mtmail]

Ah thanks, I've seen that, but right now it's only me making server.js. If there was a big enough sponsorship I'd open a non-profit, otherwise it doesn't really make sense so I'd either try to get the sponsorship as an individual or with my LTD (depending on what the sponsor is up to).