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Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Spliit has grown to 152k visitors, with community donations helping cover its hosting costs. Explore its usage trends, funding, and the contributors driving its development.
What is more interesting: the bounce rate is 33%, meaning that most people don’t just visit the home page; they act on the website, either by switching groups, creating expenses, or reading a blog post. As displayed on the home page, users created almost 15k groups at the time I’m writing this post, and a total of 162k expenses. Since the beginning, Spliit’s “business model” is clear to me: it is an open source project, that will stay free to use forever.
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