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
  • ericjmorey@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      Ballpark numbers: $10k USD / month for a developer. $5k per month if you can find someone to work at well below normal market rates. Below that it would be a token payment to someone who is able to work on it.

      Practically speaking, this represents at least an eight-fold increase in current donation rates to be sustainable rather than spending the year’s worth of hosting runway in a month.

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        1 year ago

        Are you assuming a developer in the US? Many great developers in South America and Europe that don’t expect $120K/year.

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          1 year ago

          You’d probably want to ensure they’re paid above average though (with room to move), so they’re comfortable enough with life to finish the job.

          Otherwise, you might end up with them leaving half way.

          • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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            1 year ago

            realistically yeah, there’s no current path to “hiring” someone to do much of anything besides pretty basic graphic design work.

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              1 year ago

              I am certainly open to implementing specific backend features in return for payment. You can send me a private message on Matrix to discuss the details.

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      1 year ago

      Wait, is Beehaw moving away from Lemmy or something? 😵‍💫

      Edit: nvm just saw the big thread about it.

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      Enough that it probably wouldn’t be reached any time in the near future, if at all, I assume.