Running costs
When I was a younger version of myself, I was always curious about the complex chain of dependencies that even a relatively simple web app requires.
As such, I try and run Buttondown as transparently as possible: I update this page at the start of every month to reflect new expenses and growth. (Unfortunately, Notion doesn't lend itself well to time-series data, so you can't see growth over time.)
My general philosophy on spending money for Buttondown is to default towards it, within reason: Buttondown doesn't have external funding, so I can't exactly burn through my checking account with wild abandon, but it's also not the thing I depend on to make a living, so I can afford to take some liberties.
Anyway, all of that is to say: none of these are probably that surprising, but I hope you find it interesting! Click through each item to read more about how I use it.
(You may also be interested in Buttondown's sustainable funding of open source software.)
Name | Category | Cost | Since |
---|---|---|---|
Mailgun | Infrastructure | 801 | 2018/06/01 |
Heroku | Infrastructure | 554 | 2018/06/01 |
Stripe | Administration | 310.3 | 2018/06/01 |
StatusPage | Reliability | 29 | 2020/04/01 |
Sentry | Reliability | 329 | 2020/02/01 |
JetBrains | Productivity | 15 | 2018/06/01 |
Fathom | Marketing | 24 | 2020/04/01 |
CleanTalk | Data | 11 | 2019/11/01 |
Google Suite | Administration | 10 | 2018/06/01 |
Postmark | Infrastructure | 10 | 2019/04/01 |
Zendesk | Customer service | 10 | 2019/12/01 |
Sketch | Tooling | 9 | 2021/09/01 |
PhysicalAddress | Administration | 8 | 2020/04/01 |
Slack | Administration | 8 | 2018/04/01 |
GitHub | Productivity | 7 | 2018/04/01 |
In addition, there's some stuff I've spent money on in the past and no longer do so:
Name | Category | Total cost |
---|---|---|
PopSQL | Tooling | 40 |
Briefmetrics | Tooling | 266 |
Amazon Web Services | Infrastructure | 247 |
Stripe Atlas | Administration | 500 |
Google Adwords | Marketing | 90 |
Pingdom | Reliability | 280 |
CircleCI | Tooling | 100 |
Clearbit | Data | 899 |
FullContact | Data | 990 |
Ghost | Marketing | 256 |
Ship | Tooling | 108 |
@buttondown | Marketing | 1000 |