I Built a CLI That Tells You Which Free Perks Your Open-Source Project Qualifies For

TL;DR: Open-source maintainers leave thousands of dollars in free credits and tools on the table because nobody aggregates them. I built OSS Perks — a website + CLI that lists 15+ vendor perk programs and checks your repo's eligibility with one command. The problem Vercel, Sentry, JetBrains, Cloudflare — they all give free stuff to OSS maintainers. $3,600 in hosting credits. 5 million error events. Unlimited IDE licenses. Nobody knows about half of them. It's all scattered across different websites, buried in marketing pages, each with their own eligibility rules and application steps. I spent a weekend Googling "free tools for open source" and jumping between tabs trying to figure out what my projects qualified for. Then I saw getfirstcheck.com by @5harath — a curated directory of startup programs offering founders free credits and grants. Saw the launch tweet and it clicked: founders had firstcheck, but OSS maintainers had nothing like it. So I built OSS Perks. What it is Two things: