Funding for open-source projects on your own page
Put a fund-this-project widget on your project's own site, docs, or landing page so people can support the work where they already are. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account — we never hold it or take a cut. It's a flat $20 a month, one-time or recurring support, whichever your supporters prefer.
The third-party-profile problem
The usual way to fund open-source work is to send people to a profile on someone else's platform — a page that belongs to the platform, lives under the platform's brand, and takes a percentage of what comes in. Your supporters arrive at your docs or your repo, ready to help, and the support button sends them somewhere else entirely, to sign up for an account they don't want, on a site that isn't yours. The friction costs you funding, and the percentage costs you the rest. Worse, the relationship with the people funding your project lives on the platform, not with you.
Where CrowdCreate fits a maintainer
CrowdCreate puts the funding on the project's own page. You paste one snippet onto your project site, your documentation, or a plain HTML landing page, and people fund the work there — once, or on a recurring basis if they want to support it month after month. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and at a flat $20 a month, no percentage of what you raise goes to a platform. The list of who's funding the project is yours, in your Stripe and dashboard, exportable whenever you want it.
- Fund-this-project widget lives on your project's own site or docs — not a third-party profile your supporters have to go find.
- One-time or recurring support, your supporter's choice, all from your own page.
- A flat $20/mo with no cut of what you raise; funds land in your own Stripe account.
- The funder list is yours to export; funder PII auto-expires after 13 months.
Where CrowdCreate might not fit
Worth knowing before you switch: CrowdCreate has no discovery and no built-in audience. A third-party funding profile can put your project in front of people browsing the platform; a widget on your own page only reaches people who already found you. If being discovered on a funding platform is bringing you supporters today, that's a real trade — CrowdCreate wins on keeping the funding and the relationship on your own page, not on finding new people for you.
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Donations go straight to your Stripe account. The money never touches CrowdCreate.
$20/mo flat
One price, no percentage. We never take a cut of what your donors give.
Cancel anytime
30-day refund if it's not a fit. Your donor data lives in your own Stripe.
Common questions
Can supporters fund the project monthly, not just once?
Yes. Supporters can fund once or set up recurring support, both from the widget on your own page. There are no membership tiers to configure — just a one-time or recurring contribution toward the project.
Does the money go through CrowdCreate?
No. Support goes directly to your own Stripe account. We never hold it, route it, or take a cut. We charge a flat $20 a month for the tool; Stripe charges its standard processing fee (2.9% + 30¢ per contribution), which goes to Stripe.
Can I put the widget in my documentation or on a static page?
Yes, if the page lets you paste a script tag — which covers most project sites, docs hosts, and static-site setups. If a page strips scripts, every account also gets a hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name you can link to from anywhere.
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