Funding Open-Source Software

Software sits on the shoulders of giants.

Buttondown is a tool that simply would not exist without the gargantuan effort of many, many open-source projects, the vast majority of which are drastically underfunded relative to the value they provide.

I've committed to donating at least 10% of Buttondown's profits to the software that enables it. This is a relatively low number in absolute terms — I'm certainly not changing anyone's life — but I think it's still important.

NameCategoryURLAmountSince
DjangoBackendhttps://www.djangoproject.com/foundation/donate/1006/1/2019
Django Rest FrameworkBackendhttps://fund.django-rest-framework.org/topics/funding/507/1/2019
PyPIBackendhttps://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=13/502/1/2020
VueFrontendhttps://opencollective.com/vuejs/503/1/2020
core-jsFrontendhttps://opencollective.com/core-js/251/1/2021
iPythonBackendhttps://numfocus.salsalabs.org/donate/index.html254/1/2020
WebpackFrontendhttps://opencollective.com/webpack/253/1/2021
iTerm 2Productivityhttps://www.patreon.com/gnachman/2511/1/2020
Storybook.jsFrontendhttps://opencollective.com/storybook209/1/2020
PrettierFrontendhttps://opencollective.com/prettier104/1/2020
ESLintFrontendhttps://github.com/sponsors/eslint55/1/2020
HomebrewProductivityhttps://github.com/sponsors/Homebrew45/1/2020

(The final tally: since the start of this initiative, I've donated $15,982 to projects relevant to Buttondown's success. That's not that much, and yet it is much more than many companies ten times as large as Buttondown.)