Use case
upTake for open-source maintainers
You ship a release, write the notes, and announcing it is one more chore. Many releases never get a post at all.
When you do post, you cannot tell whether the Hacker News thread or the Mastodon post is the one that brought sponsors.
A project that pays for its own maintenance needs both: releases that get announced, and a way to see which announcement was worth writing.
What upTake measures for you
- Releases, merged pull requests and commits on the main branch of the repositories you choose, sorted into features, improvements, fixes and internal changes.
- Announcement drafts for features and improvements, each with its own tagged link.
- Visits to your project site or docs from each post.
- Sponsorship and sales through Polar or Ko-fi, matched to the visit behind them when possible.
What it does not measure
- Stars, forks, clones and issues.
- Your code: no files, no diffs, no commit contents.
- Package downloads.
See the workflow before adding your site
Start with a release waiting in To post. Choose a visible change to announce, then measure visits or another goal even before you have revenue.
Connectors that help
- GitHubReads release notes, pull request titles and commit messages, on the repositories you pick.
- PPolarReads your orders.
- Ko-fiReceives each payment as it happens.
- Hacker NewsImports your submissions with their points.
- Dev.toImports your articles with their reactions and views.
- MastodonImports your public posts.
See every integration, and what upTake reads from each.
What a week can look like Example
| Post | Visits | Docs visitors who signed up | New sponsors | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.0 release, announced on Hacker News | 3,200 | 96 | 5 | $50 |
| Same release on Mastodon | 410 | 22 | 3 | $30 |
| v2.1 release, not announced | 35 | 1 | 0 | $0 |
The release nobody announced reached almost nobody.
These figures are an example, invented to show what the table looks like. They are not a customer's results. Open the live demo to see a full example project.
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