Become a sponsor to Willi Thiel

Hey, thanks for stopping by

I'm a software developer from Germany, and everything I publish here I build in my spare time — evenings, weekends, the odd holiday morning with too much coffee. There's no company behind this, no funding round, no team. Just me, a keyboard and a few servers in my basement and at a hoster.

What I work on

I build small, focused tools that solve real problems: self-hosted services, automation, integrations and the kind of glue code that nobody wants to write but everybody ends up needing. All of it is open source, all of it is free to use, and it stays that way — no premium tiers, no feature gates, no ads, no telemetry.

Why I'm asking for support

Free software isn't free to run. Every month there are servers, domains, certificates and the occasional piece of test hardware to pay for — all out of my own pocket. On top of that comes the part nobody sees: answering issues, reviewing pull requests, writing docs, chasing down that one bug that only happens on someone else's setup.

Sponsoring doesn't buy you special treatment or a secret feature branch. It buys something better: it keeps the projects independent, keeps them free for everyone, and makes it a lot easier for me to justify spending another Saturday on them instead of shelving them.

What your sponsorship does

• Keeps the lights on — servers, domains and infrastructure costs
• Keeps the projects free — no paywalls, no ads, no "open core" nonsense
• Buys time — more fixes, more features, faster responses to issues

Can't sponsor? That's fine too

Seriously. Star the repo, open a well-written bug report, improve the docs, translate a string file, or just tell someone the project exists. That helps more than you'd think — and it costs nothing.

Either way: thanks for being here. 🖤