Note that some links may be affiliate links, and kudos to Cushion for the inspiration behind this page. (All costs are monthly; I list one-time purchases as having an ongoing cost of "$0".)
(Interested in the open source software we use and maintain? Check out the open-source software page.)
Service | Genre | Since | Sponsoring? |
---|---|---|---|
Biome | genre Frontend | year 2024 | sponsoring |
Brid.gy | genre Backend | year 2024 | sponsoring |
C3 | genre Frontend | year 2020 | sponsoring |
CodeMirror | genre Frontend | year 2021 | sponsoring |
Core JS | genre Frontend | year 2019 | ✓ |
Cspell | genre Productivity | year 2024 | sponsoring |
Django | genre Backend | year 2018 | ✓ |
Django Ninja | genre Backend | year 2023 | sponsoring |
ESLint | genre Frontend | year 2020 | ✓ |
HAProxy | genre Backend | year 2022 | sponsoring |
Homebrew | genre Productivity | year 2018 | ✓ |
iTerm 2 | genre Productivity | year 2018 | ✓ |
Just | genre Productivity | year 2022 | sponsoring |
Keystatic | genre Frontend | year 2023 | sponsoring |
Localias | genre Productivity | year 2023 | sponsoring |
NextJS | genre Frontend | year 2022 | sponsoring |
OpenSheet | genre Frontend | year 2024 | sponsoring |
Overmind | genre Productivity | year 2023 | sponsoring |
Postgres | genre Backend | year 2018 | sponsoring |
Pre-commit | genre Productivity | year 2020 | sponsoring |
Prettier | genre Frontend | year 2020 | sponsoring |
Pytest | genre Backend | year 2022 | sponsoring |
Python | genre Backend | year 2018 | ✓ |
React Email | genre Frontend | year 2023 | sponsoring |
RQ | genre Backend | year 2019 | sponsoring |
Ruff | genre Backend | year 2023 | sponsoring |
Structlog | genre Backend | year 2022 | sponsoring |
Tailwind | genre Frontend | year 2021 | sponsoring |
Tiptap | genre Frontend | year 2021 | sponsoring |
Typescript | genre Frontend | year 2021 | sponsoring |
Vite | genre Frontend | year 2023 | sponsoring |
Vue | genre Frontend | year 2018 | ✓ |
The most important resource I have is my energy, and being able to trade X dollars (where X is any number less than a hundred) for even trivial amounts of energy is an absolute no-brainer.
When I launched Buttondown, AWS Simple Email Service was notoriously low-quality and Postmark did not support broadcast emails. Mailgun was the choice I went with, and there are still many customers using Mailgun’s rails who have custom domain records set up that I don’t have the heart (or incentive) to migrate.
I like having redundancy — if one provider were to go down or drastically change rates it would be trivial for me to migrate — but if I were starting Buttondown from scratch I would likely just have everything run through Postmark.
Some specific choices I made to roll my own: