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Compiler Explorer Cost Transparency
In which I try and show how we spend your kind Patreon donations
I’ve been meaning to do this for ages - a proper breakdown of where all the Patreon, GitHub, Paypal, and commercial sponsorship money goes to keep Compiler Explorer running. The operational bit includes monitoring tools ( Grafana, Papertrail, Sentry), my share of office costs whilst I’m between “real” jobs, and community expenses like the Discord server and shipping stickers to supporters. I provided the detailed cost report (which also used LLM assistance, particularly with all the AWS queries needed) and asked Claude to help draft a blog post summarising the key points in my usual style.
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