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Best GitHub Profile READMEs for Open Source Maintainers in 2026

If you maintain OSS, your README is your call-to-sponsor. Show what you maintain, link funding, set expectations. Be the maintainer profile you wish other people had.

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Sindre Sorhus — animated README card
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Sindre Sorhus

OSS-as-a-career exemplar

Feross Aboukhadijeh — animated README card
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Feross Aboukhadijeh

WebTorrent / Socket — pro maintainer

Evan Wallace — animated README card
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Evan Wallace

esbuild — solo maintainer

TJ Holowaychuk — animated README card
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TJ Holowaychuk

Express era + apex/up

Yehuda Katz — animated README card
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Yehuda Katz

Ember / Rust core

Addy Osmani — animated README card
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Addy Osmani

Books, talks, Chrome team

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