Buttondown's funding of 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 20% 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.
I’ve finally pulled together a document for tracking Buttondown’s public donations, and you can follow it at funding.buttondown.email.
(I haven’t pulled it server-side, like I did with my running costs, because I anticipate the data being much more boring. But if that changes in the future, I’ll certainly re-evaluate!)
Previous posts
- Why you need to include a physical address in your newsletter
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Weebly
- Annual subscriptions for paid newsletters
- Reminding folks to confirm their subscription
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Squarespace
- Adding a Buttondown subscription form to Webflow
- Embedding Instagram photos into your emails
- Customizing your subscription form to tag new subscribers
- How to opt out of analytics and email tracking
- Managing your drafts through the API
- Open Beta: Multiple newsletters
- Easy subscriber filters
- Scheduling emails through the API
- Sending newsletters that get delivered
- May Updates
- April Updates
- March Updates
- February Updates
- Winter Update
- June Updates
- May Updates
- April Updates
- March Updates
- Nicer archive pages!
- Markdown is easier than ever
- January Updates
- 2017: In Review
- Introducing subscriber events
- Learning about unsubscribed users
- A new blog
- Learn more about your subscribers!
- Send emails to certain tags!
- Gravatar support
- Subscriber sources
- Embeddable subscription widget
- Creating drafts via email
- Subscriber and archive search