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GOOD SOFTWARE IS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT.

Join ExtraOrbital.
Fund an open source project.

Every paying seat supports the people and open source that got you here.

Choose an open source project—or the person who brought you here. We contribute $10 per paid month, up to $120, at no extra cost.

Choose your beneficiary ↗Read the pledge ↓
A robotic arm adds an orange module to an orbital assembly above Earth.PROGRESS IS A SHARED PROJECT.
FIG. 01 — BUILDING ON WHAT CAME BEFORECONCEPT IMAGE
01 / THE CONTRIBUTION

$10/ month

From your paid seat. Never on top.
02 / THE COMMITMENT

$120 total

Up to 12 paid months per person.
03 / THE CHOICE

One beneficiary

A person or a project. Chosen for good.
01 / THE IDEA
Twelve monthly contributions of ten dollars form an orbit around a total of 120 dollars.
FIG. 02 / A LITTLE, EVERY MONTH.

Nothing great is
built alone.

Software is a community of humans and agents improving their tools together. Open source carries most of what we all build. We want that community to grow.

So a share of every paid seat goes back to it: to the person who brought you here, or to the open source project you choose. Even if its maintainers haven’t heard of us yet.

02 / PUT IT IN MOTIONYOUR CHOICE. OUR CONTRIBUTION.

Who helped you
get here?

Choose the person who introduced you, or a project you build on.

01 / A PERSON
One person passes support to the person who introduced them.
FIG. 03 / THE HUMAN CONNECTION

Pass the
good turn on.

Follow their referral link when you sign up. Already here? Name the person who brought you from your terminal.

npx extraorbital --❤️ their-slug

Their slug is the name they reserved. Referral links are good for 90 days.

02 / A PROJECT
An open-source foundation supports several applications, including your work. An orange return arrow shows your support flowing back to the project.
FIG. 04 / THE SHARED FOUNDATION

Support what
supports you.

Choose an open source repository or domain. Unclaimed contributions wait for the project’s maintainers.

npx extraorbital --❤️ org/repo

Saved on your machine and applied when it links to your account, or immediately if already linked.

One choice. Make it count. Your first beneficiary is permanent. You can’t choose both, change it later, or choose yourself.

03 / FOR THE MAINTAINERS

They picked
your project.
Claim it.

People can support your repository or domain before you join. Verify ownership to receive its supporters and the contributions already set aside.

Claim your project ↗
A robotic hand places an orange ownership key into an intricately engraved orbital station.
FIG. 05 / CLAIM YOUR PLACE IN THE ORBIT
  1. 01

    Ask for a token

    Under Account → Affiliate, Claim a project takes a GitHub repository (org/repo or its URL) or a domain, and gives you a one-time token, valid for seven days.

  2. 02

    Publish it

    For a repository: the file .github/extraorbital-affiliate on the default branch of the public repository. For a domain: a TXT record on _extraorbital.<domain>, or the file /.well-known/extraorbital-affiliate served over HTTPS.

  3. 03

    Verify, and receive

    Press Verify. Everyone who already chose the project, and everything their seats gave it, is yours from then on. Another forge? Write to hello@extraorbital.dev from an address the project lists.

04 / THE FINE PRINT, IN PLAIN ENGLISH

Good
questions.

Why do you do that instead of funding open source directly?

We’re a very small team with no VC funding, so we can’t make significant contributions on our own. But we recognize that open source is the beating heart of software today—and that it remains largely underfunded. A pricing structure that lets our users give back feels like a gesture we can afford to make. It also gives us a reason to get up in the morning: the more we grow, the more open source grows too.

Can I have more than one beneficiary?

No. Each person has one: a person or a project. Your teammates each choose their own.

Can I change it later?

No. The first beneficiary that reaches your account — a referral link at sign-up, a --❤️ on one of your machines, or your dashboard — is the only one. A later one changes nothing, and the CLI and the dashboard tell you so.

Can I support a person and a project?

No, we don't pay both. An account that already supports a person cannot attach a project, and the reverse: “You already support X; each account supports one person or project, once.”

I'm on five paid teams. Is that $50 a month?

No: $10 a month. It is counted per person and per calendar month, however many of your teams pay for your seat.

What happens when my seat stops being paid?

The credits stop. If a team pays for your seat again, they resume from the month you reached, up to the twelfth.

Does it cost me anything?

No. It comes out of what ExtraOrbital is paid for your seat, never on top of it.

How are beneficiaries paid?

By hand, from an append-only ledger: one row per person per paid month, written when the payment arrives and never changed. The dashboard shows amounts as pending until they are paid out.

THE NEXT GOOD THING STARTS WITH YOU.

Keep it
going.

Robotic arms fit a hull panel onto a partially built spaceship, revealing the framework beneath its finished sections.
FIG. 06 / EVERY CONTRIBUTION BUILDS WHAT COMES NEXT.

One person. One project. A little further.

Choose your beneficiary ↗