I've spent the last few months building N3MO a deterministic, AST-based code intelligence engine for LLM agents mostly in public. Origin story video, build logs on X, write-ups here. Today I'm adding one more piece to that: GitHub Sponsors is live on the repo.
I want to be upfront about why, because "support my project" posts usually say very little.
What N3MO actually is
Most code-context tools hand an LLM agent a pile of text and hope it figures out the structure. N3MO parses your codebase into an actual AST and gives agents a deterministic, queryable map of it so an agent isn't guessing where a function is defined or what depends on it, it's looking it up. It's open source, it's crossed 200+ stars, and it also runs as a live SaaS at n3mo.shop for teams who want it hosted.
Why sponsors, why now
N3MO is a solo project. There's no team splitting the maintenance load, and the parts that make it useful long-term keeping the AST layer correct across language versions, triaging issues, shipping the features people are actually asking for instead of the ones that are fun to build take sustained time, not sprint time.
GitHub Sponsors isn't a fundraising strategy for me. I'm talking to investors separately, through normal channels, for that. This is smaller and more direct: if N3MO is already saving you time in your agent's context pipeline, sponsoring is a way to say so and to keep it actively maintained instead of slowly rotting the way a lot of solo OSS projects do once the initial excitement fades.
What sponsorship actually funds
No vague "buy me a coffee" framing. Concretely, sponsorship goes toward:
Maintenance time — issue triage, dependency/version upkeep, keeping the parser correct as language grammars evolve
New language support — each additional language is real engineering time, not a config flag
Infra costs for n3mo.shop, which also feeds improvements back into the open-source core
The tiers, if you're curious
$5/mo — a thank-you badge and a shoutout
$25/mo — priority on your issues and feature requests
$100/mo — your name or logo in the README, plus input on the roadmap
$250/mo — a 1:1 call if you want help integrating N3MO into your agent stack
If you don't want to sponsor, here's what still helps
Honestly, most people reading this shouldn't sponsor a solo dev tool yet that's fine. What helps just as much and costs nothing:
Star the repo if you haven't
Open an issue if something's broken or missing instead of quietly working around it
Tell me if you're running N3MO in production somewhere — I genuinely want to know who's depending on this
If you are getting real value out of N3MO in your agent pipeline, the sponsor button's now on the repo. Either way, more language support and better docs are coming next — I'll keep posting the build here.
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