How We're Funded
Soapbox is funded by grants from nonprofit organizations and individual donations. We make no income from our users or apps. No ads. No data sales. No venture capital. No shareholders. We are working toward establishing a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and are entirely supported by the generosity of our donors and grant-making organizations.
Our Supporters
We are grateful for the organizations that believe in our mission and fund our work.
OpenSats
Funds core development of Ditto, Nostrify, Shakespeare, and the broader Soapbox ecosystem through ongoing grants.
And Other Stuff (AOS)
Our fiscal sponsor. AOS is a collective of open source developers building freedom technology. Donations to Soapbox are made through AOS via Open Collective Europe.
Human Rights Foundation
Supports our work building censorship-resistant tools for activists, journalists, and communities under authoritarian regimes.
Support Our Work
Every donation helps us keep building open source tools for the decentralized web. Your support means we never have to compromise on our values.
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Support Soapbox through our fiscal sponsor, AOS, on Open Collective Europe. Supports fiat currency donations and recurring contributions.
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We publish our quarterly grant reports so you can see exactly what we're building with the funds we receive.
Rebuilt Ditto from scratch with MKStack and Shakespeare, launched a high-performance Nostr relay, shipped Shakespeare to Android, and built tools for activists.
Collected user feedback on Shakespeare Act 2 and implemented improvements. Held workshops at Bitcoin conferences in Brazil, UK, and Taiwan.
Launched Shakespeare Act 2, a major rebuild of the open-source AI builder for Nostr that runs entirely in the browser.
Pivoted to building AI-assisted programming tools for Nostr: Nostrbook MCP, Stacks, MKStack, NostrHub, and Shakespeare.
Launched Ditto 1.3 with Explore features, added Cashu support, launched Nostrbook MCP and MKStack, and onboarded new global communities.
Launched Eclipse (Bluesky-Nostr bridge), created Knox bunker, moved to self-hosted infrastructure saving over $1,000/month.
Spoke at Nostriga, launched Cobrafuma for Brazil, shipped Web Push notifications, PWA support, language detection, machine translations, captcha, and database overhaul.
Launched Nostrify, NosDrive, Ditto 1.0 and 1.1, multiple Nostr communities, and a creator program. Received Long-Term Support grant.
First quarter of OpenSats funding. Launched Ditto alpha with Mastodon API support, built-in Nostr relay, and began Soapbox modernization.