Long-term Sustainability

A primary goal of the SveltePress project is to be around for a long time. There's a few operating principals driving this goal:

1. Not raising (much) money

SveltePress has a narrow scope of being the best content platform for Svelte. No lofty goal of raising millions to change the world. Raising money often sets up a binary outcome of performing fantastically or crashing and burning. SveltePress runs just fine on the (novel) concept of selling services for an amount greater than the costs.

2. Balancing free and paid tiers

As developers, we love a good free offering. It gives us the freedom to run side projects without worrying about the cost. On the flip-side, for SveltePress to run sustainably, the paid offering must cover the paid and free offering costs. We're starting with a conservative free tier. As the project grows, SveltePress will evaluate this balance and expand the free tier when possible.

3. Transparency on profitability

We're taking a unique approach to #buildinpublic and transparency. We're making the internal dashboard public with a graph of free and paid instances, the costs, the profit margin and the timeline to reach profitability. The goal is to build trust in a platform that will run sustainably in to the future.

4. Open source

SveltePress is open source, MIT-licensed and built with other MIT-licensed software. In the event of unexpectedly needing to shut down the platform, there is a clear migration path to self-hosting on another service. In this scenario, we'd make a best effort to open source the infrastructure layer too.