the October 2023 Beehaw Financial Update
the October 2023 Beehaw Financial Update
obligatory preface: we're 100%-user funded and everything you donate to us specifically goes to the website, or any outside labor we pay to do something for us. you can donate here.
overall expenses this month: $230.81
$134.66 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into
- $108.00 for hosting the site itself
- $21.60 for backups
- $5.06 for site snapshots
$27.81 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)
- $23.14 for hosting Hive
- $4.63 for backups
- $0.04 for snapshots
~$39.16 for email functionality, which can be further subdivided into
- $35/mo for Mailgun (handles outbound emails, so approval/denial/notifications emails; also lets us not get marked as spam)
- ~$4.16/mo ($50/yr, already paid in full) for Fastmail (handles all inbound emails)
$29.18 for BackBlaze (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean)
overall contributions this month: $691.85
support still more than covers our expenses; interestingly, our donation composition is now almost exclusively monthly donations.
- 108 monthly contributions, totaling $668.33
- 2 one-time donations, totaling $23.52
total end of month balance: $5,198.47
expense runway, assuming no further donations
- assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about one year and seven months of runway.
finance history
| June | July | August | September | October | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contributions | $705.00 | $3,870.44 | $1,310.90 | $1,033.82 | $691.85 |
| Expenses | $54.00 | $566.98 | $523.79 | $264.50 | $230.81 |
| Difference | +$651.00 | +$3,303.46 | +$787.11 | +$769.32 | +$461.04 |
| Balance | $726.51 | $3,591.33 | $4,347.79 | $4,701.66 | $5,198.47 |
As always, love the transparency from the Admin team as well as the devotion of our community :)
Is there a level of funding that would make the admins comfortable hiring a developer to work on whatever platform that Beehaw will eventually move to?
Enough that it probably wouldn't be reached any time in the near future, if at all, I assume.
I appreciate the table breakdown, but I’d recommend flipping its axises for future months. It’s getting pretty wide for mobile!
And as always thanks for being so open!
whoops, somewhere along the way numbers got messed up (in two ways--the initial report of backblaze expenses was wrong and that made me realize i transposed a number wrong somewhere too). the actual expenses for this month appear to be $230.81 which means a better differential than previously reported.
Excellent work compiling this as always.
Great to see the expenses are stable and the project has more than a year's worth of funding to spare.
Great info as always, thank you. Any developments re: staying here vs. leaving?
we've ruled out a few possible options, and we're currently live-testing a bunch of the ones we want to focus on. no big decisions, but there is some progress on what options we'd have if we ultimately decide to leave.
Appreciate it! Y'all are great
Thank you for your transparency ❤️