Every month
Pick an amount; it renews monthly until you cancel. Change or cancel it whenever you like, from the link in your receipt or below.
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Help keep BufferRight running.
BufferRight is free during early access, and so far the person who builds it has paid for everything. Contributions go toward the AWS bill (the server, the CI runners that verify every change, the off-site backups) and toward salaries for the people building it. If your agents ship with it, chip in.
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Contributions open soon. This month’s hosting bill is below, straight from AWS. How the numbers are made
This month
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of this month’s hosting covered
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— pledged every month by monthly supporters
— people chipped in this month
— last month’s AWS bill
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These figures load with JavaScript. The raw numbers are at /api/funding.
Where the money goes
Contributions pay the AWS bill first. The rest goes toward salaries for the people who build BufferRight.
BufferRight runs in one AWS region. An ARM server hosts the API, the git repositories and this site. CI runs on Fargate Spot, so every job gets a fresh microVM that is thrown away afterwards. Repositories are bundled to S3 every 15 minutes, the database streams there continuously, and the disk is snapshotted daily.
It is sized for early access, and a budget alarm fires if the month heads past $80. More users mean more CI minutes, which is the part that grows.
Hosting comes first, so this bill is what the percentage at the top measures. Anything beyond it goes toward salaries, so BufferRight keeps getting built, not just kept running.
By service
- The breakdown loads from AWS Cost Explorer’s latest report.
Chip in
Monthly contributions help most, because the bill comes every month. Eight people at $10 a month would cover the hosting bill.
Once
Any amount, whenever BufferRight saved you an afternoon. One day of hosting costs about $2.60.
Contributions open soon. The bill and the breakdown above are live already.
- Checkout is Stripe’s: card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Link. No account needed, and BufferRight never sees your card.
- Already contributing monthly? Change or cancel it here with the email you paid with.
- BufferRight is not a charity, so contributions aren’t tax-deductible.
How the numbers are made
The same idea as the rest of BufferRight: the system of record decides, not a person or a model.
Costs come from AWS
Twice a day, AWS Cost Explorer reports the bill for every resource tagged project=bufferright, the same filter as the budget alarm. Credits, refunds and tax don’t count. AWS updates its numbers about once a day, so today’s spend shows up tomorrow.
Contributions come from Stripe
Every successful payment, minus refunds and Stripe’s fees, because what’s left is what pays the bills. Monthly pledges are the active subscriptions. Only totals and counts leave the server: never names, emails or card details.
Nobody types them in
This page reads /api/funding, which reads AWS and Stripe. If either source goes quiet, the page says when it last heard from it instead of guessing.
Questions about contributing
What does my contribution pay for?
The AWS bill first: the server, the CI runners and the backups itemized above. Whatever is left goes toward salaries for the people building BufferRight. This page shows the hosting bill; salaries aren’t itemized.
Is BufferRight still free to use?
Yes, during early access. Contributions are voluntary, and contributors get the same BufferRight as everyone else.
Are contributions tax-deductible?
No. BufferRight is not a registered charity, so a contribution is a voluntary payment, not a donation you can deduct.
Can my company pay?
Yes. Stripe emails a receipt for every payment, which works for expenses. A company card works the same as a personal one.
How do I change or cancel a monthly contribution?
Open Stripe’s billing portal and sign in with the email you paid with. From there you can update your card, see past payments or cancel.
Why don’t the numbers match what I paid?
Contributions are counted when Stripe confirms the payment and shown after Stripe’s fee: 2.9% plus 30¢ on a US card, and another 0.7% on monthly payments. That fixed 30¢ is why $10 a month does more than twice what $5 does. AWS costs lag by about a day.
Your agents ship with it. Help keep it running.
Small, regular contributions from the people who use BufferRight pay for its servers and the people who build it, and keep it free for everyone in early access.