I build and maintain career-ops, the open-source job search agent that runs on the user's own machine. I spent sixteen years running a device repair business in Seville before software took over my life; I built career-ops for my own job search, then open-sourced it under MIT when I no longer needed it. Five months after launch it has 72,400+ stars, 409 contributors and a community of 4,800+ people (counted 22 Sep 2026). Since September 2026 I work on career-ops full time, and funding sustains that: maintenance, security, releases, documentation and independence. The project signed its first corporate sponsor in September 2026; that covers a fraction of one maintainer's time, while adoption has grown far faster than the economic capacity required to sustain it. Every one of the project's 1,610 merged pull requests was reviewed and merged by that one person (counted 22 Sep 2026).
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