behind the scenes

Buttondown's open source contributions

Every piece of open-source software that Buttondown relies on

Buttondown, like all software companies, sits on the shoulders of giants. While it is impossible to enumerate every piece of open source technology we rely on, I think it's important to both call out as many as humanly possible and give back in whatever way we can: by committing to donate 10% of all profits to open source technologies that power the software and by open sourcing and stewarding modules that others in the community would find useful.

We — and you, even if you don't know it — would be nowhere without open source software. That's why we're a happy and committed member of FOSS Funders, a group of companies devoted to funding open source software, as well as signatories of the Open Source Pledge.

(Interested in the closed-source software we use? Check out the stack.)

Allauth
genre
Backend
year
2020
commitment
$250.00
Anymail
genre
Backend
year
2018
commitment
$250.00
Biome
genre
Frontend
year
2024
commitment
Brid.gy
genre
Backend
year
2024
commitment
C3
genre
Frontend
year
2020
commitment
CodeMirror
genre
Frontend
year
2021
commitment
Core JS
genre
Frontend
year
2019
commitment
Cspell
genre
Productivity
year
2024
commitment
Django
genre
Backend
year
2018
commitment
$1,000.00
Django Ninja
genre
Backend
year
2023
commitment
ESLint
genre
Frontend
year
2020
commitment
HAProxy
genre
Backend
year
2022
commitment
Homebrew
genre
Productivity
year
2018
commitment
$250.00
iTerm 2
genre
Productivity
year
2018
commitment
Just
genre
Productivity
year
2022
commitment
Keystatic
genre
Frontend
year
2023
commitment
Localias
genre
Productivity
year
2023
commitment
NextJS
genre
Frontend
year
2022
commitment
OpenSheet
genre
Frontend
year
2024
commitment
Overmind
genre
Productivity
year
2023
commitment
Postgres
genre
Backend
year
2018
commitment
Pre-commit
genre
Productivity
year
2020
commitment
Prettier
genre
Frontend
year
2020
commitment
Pytest
genre
Backend
year
2022
commitment
Python
genre
Backend
year
2018
commitment
$1,000.00
React Email
genre
Frontend
year
2023
commitment
RQ
genre
Backend
year
2019
commitment
Ruff
genre
Backend
year
2023
commitment
Structlog
genre
Backend
year
2022
commitment
$250.00
Tailwind
genre
Frontend
year
2021
commitment
Tiptap
genre
Frontend
year
2021
commitment
Typescript
genre
Frontend
year
2021
commitment
Vite
genre
Frontend
year
2023
commitment
Vue
genre
Frontend
year
2018
commitment
$1,000.00
vite-plugin-magical-svg
genre
Frontend
year
2024
commitment
$250.00
ProseMirror
genre
Frontend
year
2021
commitment
$500.00

Packages

In addition to the above, we also donate $250/year to Adam Johnson, whose projects we use are frankly too granular and numerous to list here, but we are in his debt for all the work he does for the Django ecosystem on our behalf.