Support Us

If you chip in — one-off or recurring — here’s exactly where it goes. Honest costs, escalating absurdly. There’s no payment button yet; for now the way to help is to join the Discord and say hi.

Monthly — keeping the lights on

Recurring bills; monthly support covers them. Goals are cumulative.

$20/mo — Vercel Pro: the site stops napping between visitors.
$40/mo — Vercel Pro and Neon: the database stops napping too (everything here naps except me, I guess).
$160/mo — Vercel, Neon, and the robots stay employed: Claude’s allowance renews and the AI army continues.
$260/mo — all of the above, plus a much bigger Claude subscription: enough to net roughly 4× the work.

Fully awake at $260/mo; below that, things nap and a tired human fills the gaps (spreadsheet named random to-dos.txt).

Yearly — the small annual stuff

~$12/yr — domain renewal.
$6 / 3yr — DMCA designated agent (the legal price of letting people upload photos). I may also have to hire a registered-agent service for this, since a designated agent needs a physical address and I don’t have an office.

One-time goals & treats

$50 — burger + McFlurry: converts by ancient dev law into one shipped feature. Do not question the exchange rate.
$100 — “business stuff” starter kit: an email that isn’t gmail, a privacy policy that cost more than $0 to think about.
$200 — photo uploads (build-out): abuse scanning + EXIF stripping + the DMCA setup above. Costs significantly more than a McFlurry. We have a 400-line doc about it.

Funny stretch goals

$1,000: we hire the McFlurry.
$5,000: a real lawyer reads our Terms of Service, instead of a very confident AI prefacing every sentence with “this is not legal advice.”
$1,000,000: we buy recipechange dot com from the chef so people stop confusing us — or we rebrand, whichever’s cheaper (we’ll commission a research doc to decide).

Subscriptions

Roughly one snack per month. Named-supporter display isn’t built yet, so your name appears nowhere — for now.

$3/mo — The Snacker: you fund approximately one vending-machine item monthly. The site thanks you sincerely.
$5/mo — The Label Reader: you, personally, are why the database stays awake. A candle is lit in your honor — metaphorically; open flames violate our hosting ToS.
$6/mo — The Ingredient Truther: maximum tier. The warm glow of funding a spite-driven public service, plus first dibs on shouting “I TOLD YOU IT CHANGED” the moment we prove it did.

Prices are real-ish ballparks and will shift as the project does. The “naps” jokes stop being literally true once the monthly tiers are actually funded.

Monthly — keeping the lights on

Recurring bills; monthly support covers them. Goals are cumulative.

$20/mo — Vercel Pro: the site stops napping between visitors.

$40/mo — Vercel Pro and Neon: the database stops napping too (everything here naps except me, I guess).

$160/mo — Vercel, Neon, and the robots stay employed: Claude’s allowance renews and the AI army continues.

$260/mo — all of the above, plus a much bigger Claude subscription: enough to net roughly 4× the work.

Fully awake at $260/mo; below that, things nap and a tired human fills the gaps (spreadsheet named random to-dos.txt).

One-time goals & treats

$50 — burger + McFlurry: converts by ancient dev law into one shipped feature. Do not question the exchange rate.

$100 — “business stuff” starter kit: an email that isn’t gmail, a privacy policy that cost more than $0 to think about.

$200 — photo uploads (build-out): abuse scanning + EXIF stripping + the DMCA setup above. Costs significantly more than a McFlurry. We have a 400-line doc about it.

Funny stretch goals

$1,000: we hire the McFlurry.

$5,000: a real lawyer reads our Terms of Service, instead of a very confident AI prefacing every sentence with “this is not legal advice.”

$1,000,000: we buy recipechange dot com from the chef so people stop confusing us — or we rebrand, whichever’s cheaper (we’ll commission a research doc to decide).

Subscriptions

Roughly one snack per month. Named-supporter display isn’t built yet, so your name appears nowhere — for now.

$3/mo — The Snacker: you fund approximately one vending-machine item monthly. The site thanks you sincerely.

$5/mo — The Label Reader: you, personally, are why the database stays awake. A candle is lit in your honor — metaphorically; open flames violate our hosting ToS.

$6/mo — The Ingredient Truther: maximum tier. The warm glow of funding a spite-driven public service, plus first dibs on shouting “I TOLD YOU IT CHANGED” the moment we prove it did.

Prices are real-ish ballparks and will shift as the project does. The “naps” jokes stop being literally true once the monthly tiers are actually funded.