Sponsor spf13 🚀

👋 Hello, Open Source Community!

I'm Steve Francia (spf13), an independent open source developer who has created and maintained some of the most widely-used Go libraries and tools in the ecosystem. I'm the creator of Hugo, Cobra, Viper, Afero, maintainer of pflag and dozens of other libraries that power critical infrastructure across the software industry.

My Work 🛠️

My open source work focuses on building simple, powerful tools that developers love to use:

• Hugo 🏎️: The world's fastest framework for building websites, with its amazing speed and flexibility making it one of the most popular static site generators
• Cobra 🐍: A library providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI applications
• Viper 🔧: A complete configuration solution for Go applications
• Afero 📂: A filesystem abstraction system for Go
• pflag 🚩: Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style flags

These projects and others are completely free and open source under permissive licenses, making them accessible to everyone. However, the significant effort required to maintain these projects, support users, review contributions, and coordinate community efforts is only sustainable with the support of sponsors like you.

Why Sponsor? 🤔

For Businesses 💼

If your company builds products on top of my libraries, it makes business sense to sponsor their development. Your sponsorship:

• Ensures sustainability of the critical infrastructure your products rely on
• Provides visibility to developers who use these tools daily
• Improves your brand reputation in the developer community
• Makes recruitment easier by demonstrating your commitment to open source

For companies targeting developers, sponsorship also offers high-quality exposure to a technical audience, as all visitors to my repositories are developers.

For Individuals ☕

If you're an individual developer who has benefited from my tools, consider sponsoring as a way to show appreciation – like buying me a protein shake (I don't drink Coffee) occasionally. Your support, no matter the size, makes a difference in keeping these projects maintained.

If you can't personally sponsor, consider advocating for your employer to become a sponsor. Business sponsorships typically have a much larger impact on the sustainability of open source projects.

My Open Source Journey 🧭

I've dedicated a significant portion of my career to creating tools that make developers more productive. What started as simple utilities to solve my own problems evolved into projects used by millions of developers worldwide.

When I created Cobra and Viper, I wanted to simplify how developers built command-line applications and managed configuration. Hugo began as an experiment to build a faster static site generator and has grown to power hundreds of thousands of websites across the internet.

While I've had the privilege of working with great companies like Google, Docker, and MongoDB, my passion has always been building open source tools that empower the development community. Your sponsorship helps me continue this mission independently.

Thank You ❤️

Open source work is only sustainable through the support of the community. Your sponsorship ensures that my projects remain well-maintained and continue to evolve. Thank you for considering supporting my work!

Become a Sponsor on GitHub 🎁

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