title:
Year Two of the Open Source Pledge
description:
Continuing to fund open source software
pubDate:
2025-11-04:00:00.000Z
author:
Tom MacWright

Last year we joined the Open Source Pledge and started supporting the people who write the NPM modules and vital utilities that Val Town is built upon.

We're sticking with it this year, and have donated another $8,131 these great folks, rounding out to $2,710 per developer.

$To
$1,300esm.sh
$1,300Fastify
$1,188Zod
$1,200unified
$1,343CodeMirror
$1,200Drizzle
$600tRPC

We also did a bit of open source on our own – both of Wolf's big projects are open source:

If you're also running a startup that's built on open source, you should join the pledge too - it is the best shot we have to sustain the open source ecosystem.