The open books
Where the money goes
Nobody is making money from your backyard. The app is free and open source; a small fee on payments pays for the servers, and that is the whole business model. Here is the arithmetic.
We keep 3% of every contribution and every ticket to pay for hosting. Here’s the math.
On a $25 gift, $0.75 covers hosting and $24.25 reaches the pod. The fee comes off the top, never on top — nobody is asked to “cover the fee” at the till. No ads, nothing sold on, no growth targets. Craigslist, not a startup.
Everything, added up
$2,345 has moved through this app in total. Every figure here is summed from the ledger, which is append-only — entries are never edited or deleted, so these numbers can only ever grow.
Farms raising money right now
- Lynden House2 goals open · 7 supportersAbout this farm
How much each goal has raised, what came off for hosting and what has been paid out is the pod’s own business — the people who chipped in can see all of it on the farm’s goal page. What a named backyard earns is not a number for strangers.
Why this page exists
The software sustains itself the way Craigslist did: free to use, one small transaction fee, no ambition beyond covering the bill. That only means anything if you can check it — so the fee is a line in an append-only ledger rather than a footnote in a terms page, and this is that ledger added up. If these numbers ever stop matching what you were charged, something is wrong and we would like to know.
No names appear on this page — not contributors, not stewards, not members. Money is private to the people it moved between; the totals are everybody’s business.