Small project with 25 stars got accepted into Claude's OSS sponsorship
A developer applied to Anthropic's Claude sponsorship program and got accepted despite their project having only 25 . Before applying, they nearly gave up because every acceptance story they'd seen involved projects with thousands of stars and years of commit history.
The guidelines, in section 2.2, describe an '' track that doesn't require hitting a star-count threshold like 5,000. Instead, applicants write about 500 words explaining why their project matters, and a real person reviews it directly.
Using this track got the developer accepted. They plan to use the sponsorship to improve their project, floe, a file transfer tool that runs entirely in the browser, requires no account, and stores nothing on a server.
Key points
- A project with just 25 was accepted into Anthropic's Claude sponsorship program
- Section 2.2 of the describes an '' track with no star-count requirement
- s on this track are reviewed by a real person, based on a roughly 500-word explanation of the project's value
- The sponsorship will be used to improve floe, a file transfer project
- floe runs in the browser, needs no account, and stores nothing on a server