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Dev tools · July 23, 2020

Flossbank

Give back to open source - for free

Flossbank launched on July 23, 2020 with 54 votes, #836 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

Flossbank allows you to support open source for free. Simply sign up, install the CLI, and voilà! Now, whenever you npm install in your terminal, you'll see an ad. The revenue from that ad goes directly towards the open source projects you just installed!

Flossbank provides a free and frictionless way to support Open Source maintainers across the entire dependency tree of your installed packages.

Flossbank is decomissioning... Please read more here (opens in new window) . At Flossbank, we help Open Source authors and maintainers receive compensation for their work. Flossbank uses a combination of enterprise funds, developer donations, and developer ad revenue to support all of the packages used, all the way down the dependency tree. Yes, all of them. Flossbank provides a free and frictionless way to give back to Open Source maintainers, especially those who don’t have time for self-promotion. Here's how that's possible. By installing our package manager wrapper, you support maintainers across the entire dependency tree of each Open Source package you install in one of two ways:…from flossbank.com

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