FastEndpoints needs your help to stay alive...

[dj-nitehawk]

hi all...

FE has grown in popularity over the last 2 years and it has now outgrown the scope of a solo maintainer.

lately, i've been having a hard time finding the time necessary to help people out with their support queries/bug reports etc. due to having extra responsibilities with my day job. the additional workload from FE has started to affect my mental health due to a lack of personal downtime which in turn affects the quality of the work i do.

so, the plan is to hire a couple of part-time remote workers/developers to help me out with the workload and potentially employ them full-time going forward. i've already started training one person for this and she will be interacting with you guys in a few weeks on github as well as the discord channel. code quality/pull-requests will still be reviewed by myself as time permits. so, rest assured that FE will always remain a high quality product.

i'm completely against commercializing the project and will forever remain free and open-source. i will be paying the person out of my own pocket for as long as i possibly can. if you guys would like to help me out with that, i've created an open-collective account where you can become sponsors/financial backers. please visit the link below:

https://opencollective.com/fast-endpoints

hopefully, if the sponsorship campaign becomes successful, i'm planning to quit my day job and give my undivided attention to FE as there's a lot more to do with the project to make it an even better offering. i'd also like to distribute a portion of the money to all current and future github/PR contributors for their hard work. if you have any thoughts/ideas regarding this, please do not hesitate to talk to me either publicly or privately.

thank you all for your support in making FE one of the best software products i've ever had the pleasure of working on in my development career. i appreciate you all :-)

cheers!

[candoumbe]

Hi @dj-nitehawk
I hope things will work out for you regarding your personal and professional life and hopefully you'll find the balance that you're looking for.

I'm willing to offer my help in any way that could make this project even more successfull and the workload sustainable for you.

I'm new to OSS eco system and I'd like to give back to the "community" as much it has given to me.

So if I can help in any way, feel free to reach me.

Regards

[dj-nitehawk]

@candoumbe thank you! that would be wonderful.
so to start with... if/when you have free time, you could help out by answering any github issues or discord posts that you feel comfortable answering reliably (i.e. if you feel like you know the solution).
send me a DM in discord and i'll assign you the "Staff" role there.

[duckarp]

What's the state of this project nowadays? I see there are some commits done recently, but what about the future? I have some projects I'd like to port from controller-based code to FastEndpoints, but this thread kinda worries me.

[dj-nitehawk]

@duckarp we are live and kicking. @KateyBee is helping me out in an ongoing basis and we're trying to stick to a monthly release cycle. sponsorship base is picking up slowly but surely. so that's helping the situation a bit. hopefully it would get better as the library gets more wider adoption and we can focus more time/energy for future development.

rest assured, the only way this project will get abandoned is if i kick the bucket or somebody else comes up with a better way to do REST APIs 😁

[nefarius]

I have some projects I'd like to port from controller-based code to FastEndpoints, but this thread kinda worries me.

Everything simply works so well, not many commits required 😁 Seriously though, I have added FE to my personal toolbox for quite a while, people interested in seeing it alive and well are there, mate 😉

[duckarp]

Great, thank you both for very quick answers :) Just what I needed to hear.

[planetdaz]

I have some projects I'd like to port from controller-based code to FastEndpoints, but this thread kinda worries me.

Everything simply works so well, not many commits required 😁 Seriously though, I have added FE to my personal toolbox for quite a while, people interested in seeing it alive and well are there, mate 😉

I can add to this, FE just works, and the docs are impressive. I would like to see this get more community support, and I would love to be involved in that myself, because I think it's the way endpoints should be! As far as I'm aware, there's nothing out there this good that I've come across for minimal endpoints.

[itsoli91]

I also like FE, I don't know how, but I would like to help

[real-zony]

I've been primarily focused on the ABP framework until I recently discovered FastEndpoints. It's so impressive that I used it to refactor some of our microservices, and they are working very stably now.
I've set up a long-term sponsorship through OpenCollective ($5 per month) because I really hope this project continues to grow and evolve.

[dj-nitehawk]

@real-zony really glad to hear FE is serving you well. and we the FE community greatly appreciate your support. if you ever have any questions or need some help, pls drop into our discord server or create issues here on gh. thank you! 🙏