Breakdown of my monthly Open Source development costs.
I created this to outline what on average it costs me to develop OSS. While it would be nice to break even with sponsors, I do OSS for fun & not for money. This is more informational for anyone who chooses to follow in my footsteps.
| Name | Cost | Interval | Justification |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Pro | 4 USD | Monthly | Additional features and higher limits help a lot when developing the number of repos I do. |
| DockerHub Pro | 5 USD | Monthly | Pro features are super useful for aid in some of my bigger repos like vulnerability scanning and image inspections. |
| Dedicated Servers | 175 USD | Monthly | A dedicated server setup to serve as my playground for development projects and host production grade projects when they are completed. IE My valheim project has 3 servers running on these systems. |
| IDE | 249 USD | Yearly | While there are free editors and I do use them from time to time, it's hard to beat the integrations currently available on IntelliJ. |
| Dbeaver | 23 USD | Monthly | There is no better IDE for databases on the market in my opinion. |
| AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/B2 Backblaze | 27 USD | Monthly | Backups, static sites, databases, etc. |
Yearly Cost: 2,537 USD
- OpenLens
- kubectx: Faster way to switch between clusters and namespaces in kubectl
- croc: Easily and securely send things from one computer to another 🐊 📦
- uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
- ruff: An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust
- My time: I don't calculate the cost of time but I spend roughly 20 hours average per week on OSS development.
- Utilities & housing: Running computers, living, etc.
- Food and other things to sustain myself.
- Education: I've gotten a Bachelor's and Master's in STEM fields and spend loads of time and money to continue my education.
- Hardware and other technology to develop.
