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Sindre Sorhus

Full-Time Open-Sourcerer

About


Hey, I'm Sindre. I have been doing open source since 2012 and I still cannot get enough of it. In 2014, I quit my office job to backpack around Southeast Asia while doing open source. I have been doing open source full-time since then, 8-12 hours a day, while living off savings.

I actively maintain 1100+ npm packages (2 billion downloads a month) and many popular projects. You're probably depending on some of my packages in your dependency tree. For example, Webpack relies on 101 of my packages and Babel relies on 144 of my packages.

If you or your company use any of my projects or like what I’m doing, please consider backing me so I can continue maintaining and evolving these projects and new ones.

Some of my projects include:
- Awesome - Collaborative lists on many different topics (200k+ stars and 6th most starred repo on GitHub)
- AVA - JavaScript test runner
- XO - JavaScript linter
- Chalk - Colorize terminal output in Node.js (3rd most depended upon npm package)
- Refined GitHub - Makes GitHub better for power-users
- Gifski - Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac
- Got - High-quality HTTP request client for Node.js
- np - A better way to publish npm packages and updates
- electron-store - Simple data persistence for your Electron app
- ky - Tiny and elegant HTTP client based on the browser Fetch API
You can read more about me in an interview in "Between the Wires" and my AMA.

 Thank you for your support! 🙌 

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Top financial contributors

Organizations

1
Retool

$30,000 USD since Jan 2021

2
Gitpod

$15,500 USD since Jul 2021

3
Indeed

$9,000 USD since Feb 2021

4
Strapi

$7,420 USD since May 2021

5
ESLint

$6,750 USD since Aug 2020

6
Bower

$5,850 USD since Mar 2019

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Frontend Masters

$5,000 USD since Aug 2022

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GatsbyJS

$4,500 USD since Oct 2019

9
GitBook

$2,775 USD since Jan 2022

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Individuals

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Kimmy Leslie

$15,000 USD since Jan 2022

2
Logto

$6,000 USD since Apr 2024

3
Addy

$1,150 USD since Oct 2020

4
Carlo Zottmann

$289 USD since Jul 2023

5
Andreas Pizsa

$260 USD since Apr 2019

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Incognito

$215 USD since Apr 2021

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Brian Moeskau

$210 USD since Feb 2023

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Kyle Smith

$170 USD since Mar 2019

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Chris Calo

$150 USD since Nov 2019

10
Konstantin Pschera

$130 USD since Sep 2019

Sindre Sorhus is all of us

Our contributors 129

Thank you for supporting Sindre Sorhus.

Retool

Gold Sponsor

$30,000 USD

Gitpod

Silver Sponsor

$15,500 USD

Kimmy Leslie

🦄 Sponsor

$15,000 USD

Indeed

$9,000 USD

Strapi

🦄 Sponsor

$7,420 USD

ESLint

Silver Sponsor

$6,750 USD

Thanks for all of your great open source work!

Logto

🦄 Sponsor

$6,000 USD

Bower

Backer

$5,850 USD

Thank you for continuous and tireless work on O...

GatsbyJS

$4,500 USD

GitBook

Silver Sponsor

$2,775 USD

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

$14,048.77 USD

Total raised

$106,498.74 USD

Total disbursed

$92,449.97 USD

Estimated annual budget

$20,438.92 USD