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I've been thinking about how to crowdsource funding for the continual development of NostrGram and it's hardware costs (which will be rising soon as Nostr grows in popularity -- 150gb in bandwidth used so far this month!). I'm thinking of doing something like a Patreon where people can support the project and get a badge on their profile (if they want) showing their support, along with a higher priority for feature requests, that kind of thing.

If you are willing to support NostrGram in this way, what kind of benefits would be nice to have for doing so? I'm all for value-for-value, so those willing to pony up even a few dollars a month/year in support of the project certainly deserve some preferential treatment and priority.

I want to keep all the features free for everyone if at all possible. Some folks simply can't afford it. I get a lot of traffic from a lot of countries.
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Alex 2y ago

Is 150GB of bandwidth the problem? Hetzner gives 20TB per month.

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jleger2023 2y ago

Oh no, it's not at all a problem atm. But NostrGram used 8gb last month and is already at 150gb so far this month -- so you can see how fast this is growing. And as the database grows in size it will require sharding and replication. NostrGram already has tens of thousands of people using it every month, and that will grow, too, requiring additional resources to handle the load, load balancers, servers, etc. I'm thinking forward.