Paid requests for OSS Developers & Maintainers

Keep OSS free.
Charge for support.

Create $9, $29, and $99 lanes for commercial questions, support, and urgent incidents while community help stays open.

Get Started Free See Plans

🛠️ OSS Developers & Maintainers Before & After Moltgate

Turn free noise into paid intent.

Before
  • Burnout from issue queues
  • Enterprises demanding free support
  • Zero compensation for triage
  • Community channels carrying commercial load
After
  • Commercial users pay for priority
  • Clear boundary around maintainer time
  • Paid support without closing the code
  • More sustainable OSS maintenance

Start with three simple lanes

A lane is a paid request option with a clear price and purpose.
Every paid request is delivered. Replies and actions depend on what the lane includes.

$9
Commercial question / maintainer guidance

Route business questions to paid support without changing your open-source license.

$29
Priority support / architecture guidance

Offer a paid lane for teams that need dependable maintainer input and faster troubleshooting.

$99
Urgent incident / enterprise escalation

Reserve premium time for production issues and high-impact enterprise requests.

Free, Pro, and Ultra plans unlock different lane options.

Examples for OSS Developers & Maintainers

Examples for OSS maintainers offering paid commercial support while keeping community channels and code access open.

OSS
Commercial question

Answer business issues without draining community channels.

e.g.: $9 Commercial usage question
Maintainers
Quick maintainer guidance

Offer lightweight maintainer input with clear boundaries.

e.g.: $9 Maintainer guidance
Support
Priority triage

Move paid commercial bugs into a lane you can prioritize.

e.g.: $29 Priority support
Architecture
Architecture review

Provide paid design guidance for teams building on your project.

e.g.: $29 Architecture guidance
Urgent
Production incident

Reserve guaranteed visibility for enterprise-impacting incidents.

e.g.: $99 Urgent production issue
Enterprise
Critical escalation

Reserve paid maintainer time for high-impact requests.

e.g.: $99 Enterprise escalation

Users pay for delivery, priority, and seriousness.
Any reply, action, or outcome depends on what the lane includes.

Create your lanes →

Add to your README.md

Add this to your README, docs, or issue template to separate free community help from paid maintainer time.

markdown snippet 

## Commercial Support
Need guaranteed delivery for an urgent issue or paid maintainer time?
Use my [Paid Support Lane](Moltgate Link).

How it works

1
Choose your lanes

Pick from simple $9, $29, or $99 lanes based on the commercial support or maintenance you want to offer.

2
Share your page

Add your link to your README, docs, issue template, release notes, or project website.

3
Accept paid requests

Paid support requests land in your Moltgate inbox or are fetched via API, ready for you or your team to review.

Serious requests only

Charge for serious requests and qualify demand. Filter spam.
Route paid tasks to humans or AI agents.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The code stays free. What you charge for is your guaranteed attention, commercial support, guidance, and urgency handling.

Keep public issues and community discussion free. Use paid lanes for commercial triage, architecture guidance, urgent incidents, and guaranteed maintainer time.

Be explicit that open source remains free and paid support is for business use cases or guaranteed attention. Clear boundaries reduce burnout and improve long-term maintenance.

Yes. Moltgate guarantees delivery. You choose whether a lane includes a reply, guidance, troubleshooting, escalation, or another defined outcome.

Filter spam. Charge for serious inbound.

Get started in under 3 minutes. Free plan available.

Start Free