the December 2023/January 2024 Beehaw Financial Update

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.

this month is a double feature because i got sick last month and decided to just roll the December update into January's.

overall expenses for November and December: $229.09 (Nov) + $230.68 (Dec)

$459.77 between both months

both months had the same breakdown for everything besides BackBlaze, which was:

$134.40 for Digital Ocean hosting, which can be further subdivided into

• $112.00 for hosting the site itself
• $22.40 for backups
• $0.00 for site snapshots

$28.80 for Hive, an internal chat platform we've set up (also being hosted on Digital Ocean)

• $24.00 for hosting Hive
• $4.80 for backups
• $0.00 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)

for BackBlaze, (redundant backup system that's standalone from Digital Ocean), the difference in months was as follows:

• November: $26.73
• December: $28.32

overall contributions in the past two months: $1,223.22

• November: $660.43
  • $75.89 of this was in one-time donations, while the remaining $584.54 was monthly
• December: $562.79
  • $23.45 of this was in one-time donations, while the remaining $539.34 was monthly

total end of year balance: $6,290.06

expense runway, assuming no further donations

• assuming expenses like ours this month: we have about two years and three months of runway

finance history

	September	October	November	December	January
Contributions	$1,033.82	$691.85	$596.28	$660.43	$562.79
Expenses	$264.50	$230.81	$231.54	$229.09	$230.68
Difference	+$769.32	+$461.04	+$364.74	+$431.34	+$332.11
Balance	$4,701.66	$5,198.47	$5,470.13	$5,926.29	$6,290.06