c/meta · by towerful@programming.dev · 1y

How is funding?

I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

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Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

From the sidebar https://github.com/sponsors/snowe2010/

towerful@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Thanks.

I would like to have some help with server and maintenance costs. Currently the site costs about $2,100 USD a year to run, but a large portion of that was for the initial domain name purchase which was around $580 USD.

Thankfully we've grown pretty slowly so it hasn't cost so much so far, but it will begin to add up soon. @snowe2010

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month

58% towards $200 per month goal

Can only sponsor through GitHub?

snowe@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

yes sorry, I have a goal to get set up with an open sponsor, but just haven't. Currently in regards to funding I am $1000 short for the last year, so I definitely need to get the open sponsor set up because lots of people are only willing to fund that way (which I completely understand). And that's just for base infrastructure. I would like to pay the admins as well.

lysdexic@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

$1500/year sounds an awful lot for a site that barely receives any updates even from the public.

What efforts are being developed to lower operational costs?

starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y

From the github

@snowe2010's goal is to earn $200 per month pay for our 📫 SendGrid Account: $20 a month 💻 Vultr VPS for prod and beta sites: Prod is $115-130 a month, beta is $6-10 a month 👩🏼 Paying our admins and devops any amount ◀️ Upgrade tailscale membership: $6-? dollars a month (depends on number of users) Add in better server infrastructure including paid account for Pulsetic and Graphana. Add in better server backups, and be able to expand the team so that it's not so small.

snowe@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

barely receives any updates even from the public.

what do you mean by this?

towerful@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

Perhaps my post is alluding to the requirement of more communication.
Maybe a pinned quarterly report?

pohart@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

I can probably give every month, but I can't have it auto-debited. I'd love a monthly post like this, reminding us that it's not free.