the October 2023 Beehaw Financial Update (beehaw.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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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

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[-] YooHooBandit@beehaw.org 22 points 9 months ago

As always, love the transparency from the Admin team as well as the devotion of our community :)

[-] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 19 points 9 months 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?

[-] Hyperz@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

Edit: nvm just saw the big thread about it.

[-] What_the_vent_meant@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago

I must be crazy but I haven’t seen a thread about that. Could you please add (or send me) a link to it?

[-] nlm@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

https://beehaw.org/post/7776438

[-] miracleorange@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 17 points 9 months ago

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!

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 17 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 14 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] acastcandream@beehaw.org 8 points 9 months ago

Great info as always, thank you. Any developments re: staying here vs. leaving?

[-] alyaza@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago

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.