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Do you still run it at cost? Do I/we need to raise my pay in? I haven't checked to thread were you mention running costs so bit updated.
TBH I'm unsure. PayPal has about £1.4k in it (topped up annually by Brixton Cycles, and monthly by Islington Cycles), which is a good couple of months. And the very regular big stuff deducts from that, i.e. Linode hosting, Sendgrid email. But I fail to bill everything through it as I don't have a card associated to PayPal any longer - so ad-hoc costs like domain names, certificates, software licences, etc... these I pay out of pocket for and consider as donations. Then sometimes PayPal drains and I cover the shortfall and don't bother to track the costs (these are the times I rattle the donation can and nag people), and other times PayPal sits at 3-6 months worth of donations and I just forget about it all as it's ticking over by itself (this is where it was late last year / earlier this year).
So yes it's a cost... but clearly not enough that I ever need to be concerned about it and the majority of costs are definitely met by donations.
I once used Xero to track this stuff in detail... but paying an extra $50 per month (at the time) to manage something that was cruising along nicely just seemed like a waste of money. So things like this, non-essential services... I just removed them so that the money that was donated went further.
I don't really want it to be a business... so I don't run it as one. I'm happily employed and a side project fits more easily with employment than me having a side company.
Velocio-
So yes it's a cost... but clearly not enough that I ever need to be
concerned about it and the majority of costs are definitely met by
donations.Thanks for mentioning it. All too often one forgets that something like this costs someone money. I just made a small contribution, because the forum has been helpful to me.
EvilDMP
Do you still run it at cost? Do I/we need to raise my pay in? I haven't checked to thread were you mention running costs so bit updated.