tidelift-estimator 🌊

Estimates the potential Tidelift income for a given npm package maintainer.

How it works

1. Fetches all packages for the given username from the npm registry
2. Checks each package against the Tidelift API to see if it is "lifted" (i.e. subscribed to by Tidelift customers)
3. Estimates monthly income: $50/month per lifted package, with the user as the primary maintainer/beneficiary

[!NOTE] This is a rough estimate. Our own payouts, and payouts to other maintainers we know show that all packages which have any kind of usage are earning $50/month. Some outliers earn more or less, but the average is certainly $50.

Usage

npx tidelift-estimator <username>

For example:

npx tidelift-estimator 43081j

Output:

Fetching packages for 43081j...

Tidelift Estimate for 43081j
──────────────────────────────
  Packages:        60
  Lifted packages: 5
  Monthly income:  $250

To look up a specific package instead of a user, pass --package (or -p):

npx tidelift-estimator --package <package-name>

This will calculate the estimated income for the author of the package, based on the sum of all the deep dependencies that they also own.

[!NOTE] As you can see in this example (of myself), the number is off in this case. This is because I am not the primary maintainer/beneficiary of 4 of the lifted packages I am a publisher of. I actually earn $50/month from one, and a person I maintain a few packages with earns the other $200/month.

License

MIT