CodeFund

CodeFund Profit Tracker with NodeMCU

Earlier last week, I saw @mention on twitter from one of our publishers with a cool photo. I immediately reached out and set up a call with Mehmet. I was amazed to learn that CodeFund was helping fight censorship by providing revenue for builders of services like Pastebin Proxy. Every publisher has a story; this is Mehmet’s.

300 Million Ethical Ads

This month, CodeFund hit a major milestone by having displayed over 300 million non-tracking, ethical ads. I learned of this accomplishment this morning by Justin Dorfman via Slack:

CI for Ruby on Rails: GitHub Actions vs. CircleCI

This is part three of a three part series (part 1, part 2) where I will walk you through setting up your CI suite with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and then comparing which you may want to use if you are setting up continuous integration for your Rails app.

Thank You For 2019

It’s coming to the end of another year. This month, CodeFund is 2 ½ years old! It’s incredible how time has flown. This week I have done a lot of reflection on our accomplishments in 2019. One of the greatest accomplishments is that we were able to pay out over $307,000 to open source maintainers, bloggers and builders all over the world. To put that into perspective, we paid out a little over $70K in 2018.

3 New Ad Formats to Choose From

We are excited to announce that we have 3 new ad formats! This will help publishers and advertisers get better results. First, let’s take a look at new behaviors for existing ad templates:

Meet the Team: Andrew Mason

At the beginning of October 2019, I joined the CodeFund team as a full stack Ruby on Rails Engineer. It has turned out to be one of the greatest decisions I have ever made but at the moment, it was one of the hardest and most important decisions I have ever made. 

The First & Longest Post-Mortem We’ve Ever Written

I’m writing this on my iPad on a table at GitHub Universe 2019 (in San Francisco). This time last year, Nate and I decided to scrap the Elixir codebase and re-write it in Ruby. This has proven to be the right decision. We are now serving upwards of 1.2 million ads per day on top of this Rails monolith we’ve built.

An Open Letter to CodeFund Publishers

tl;dr: We are honored that you trust us to be your advertising partner. We take that trust seriously. We are working hard to get you more money and help your projects thrive. We’ve recently learned that our mission to help sustain open source is under attack.

How to Insert Ethical Ads into Your Slate API Docs

For those who don’t know Slate helps you create beautiful, intelligent, responsive API documentation. They were inspired by Stripe’s API Docs and are used by open source projects to large enterprise & government institutions. Let’s get started!

How Ethical Advertising Will Transform the Blockchain Industry

In the initial years following Bitcoin’s inception, most blockchain companies didn’t need paid advertising. The early adopters were a community of cypherpunks, libertarians, developers, miners, and hobbyists, that truly believed in the power of decentralized networks. To them, adoption was inevitable, and rather than putting paid ads in front of the general public, resources were better spent building wallets, development tools, infrastructure, and scalability solutions. 

Introducing the CodeFund Referral Program

tl;dr: Publishers can now earn by referring their friends to CodeFund

Introducing Global Pricing

tl;dr: CodeFund now supports country-specific eCPM pricing

Introducing CodeFund Jobs

tl;dr: CodeFund Jobs provides a way to find highly qualified passive engineering job candidates.

CodeFund Feature: Ad Callbacks

tl;dr: Publishers can grow with CodeFund without sacrificing revenue by using ad callbacks

Ad Effectiveness & Time of Day

tl;dr: We can impact the overall quality of ads if we base pricing on visitor location

Introducing CodeFund 2.0

tl;dr: CodeFund has been rewritten from the ground up (and that's a good thing)

What Keeps Me Up At Night

tl;dr: Thoughts on managing supply and demand of a double-sided market

What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source

tl;dr: Be Open, Focused, Ethical and Resilient

CodeFund integrates with Discourse

tl;dr: CodeFund is now part of the core ads plugin by Discourse

The CPC Illusion

tl;dr: Google Analytics is wrong

Code Sponsor joins Gitcoin

tl;dr: Code Sponsor comes back to life with Gitcoin.co