There should be a neovim business

neovim is arguably the most important application I have on my computer. It's the text editor I've been using for well over a decade (if you count vim as well), and it is different enough from every other text editor that it's really unlikely that I'll switch to anything else anytime soon.

Right now I use a configuration of neovim based on LazyVIM. Neovim's built-in features are not enough for me or, I suspect, the average coder: most people want things like LSP-driven autocompletion and integration with code linters. LazyVIM is maintained by Folke Lemaitre, an incredibly productive programmer who is leading the way on plugin development.

I sponsor neovim's development but really I want to pay something like $12/month for a tool like neovim. There's some risk of ruining the open source ethos, but on the other hand, a well-functioning editor is easily worth that amount of money to me. Neovim’s competitors are healthily funded VC-backed startups and Microsoft-backed behemoths.

As great as it is, neovim suffers from a burnout problem. Someone will write a great plugin and attract a lot of users who hit bugs and report them, and the maintainer doesn't have the capacity or motivation to handle it all. Your average neovim user, including me, doesn't especially want to learn all the ins and outs of plugin development in Lua: they want a working editor. I want to pay for that. Why not make a neovim company?