$20,000 raised
Enough to get builds signed, run real workshops and pay the people who help us build this, without ever charging a student for any of it.
Grants and donations
We are raising $20,000 in our first year.
Here is every line of it, what it buys, and what we are promising to do with it. If a number here is not specific enough for you to hold us to, tell us and we will fix it.
What we are trying to do.
Two targets for our first year, both public, both easy to check.
10,000 downloads
Ten thousand people who stopped shopping for a productivity system and started using one. We measure this and we will publish it.
What unlocks, and when.
Two of these are not on the roadmap yet because we cannot honestly promise them without the money to build them. So they are tied to the number instead. Hit the number, we build the thing.
$10,000 Daydock on your phone
A mobile app, free like the desktop one.
The single most common thing people tell us is that the day happens away from a desk. A phone app is the difference between writing your day down and remembering that you meant to. It is free when it ships, the same as everything else we make.
$20,000 A hosted version you buy once
Your notebook in a browser, on a server, with lifetime access for one payment.
Some people cannot install software, or want their notebook on a school Chromebook. So we will build a hosted web version and sell it the only way we are willing to: you pay once, you get lifetime access, and the price is what the servers cost us. No margin and no subscription. This is not how we plan to make money. If a sponsor covers it, or a funder gives us permission to put extra grant money toward it, we will give students lifetime access for free wherever we can.
About lifetime access
We know how it sounds for a young nonprofit to promise lifetime access to anything. So here is the safety net, in writing. The hosted version will be open source like the rest of Daydock, and your notebook stays plain Markdown files you can download at any time. If this foundation ever cannot keep running, you can host it yourself or move your notes anywhere, and you lose nothing but our involvement.
We would rather sell something once at cost and mean it than rent you your own notes forever.
Where the money goes.
Every line, in order of size. Nothing here is a placeholder. Most of it is development, because the two things above are what people keep asking us for.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Building the software The largest line by far, and deliberately so. Finishing the desktop app, then the mobile app at 10,000 dollars and the hosted web version at 20,000. Paying freelancers for the parts we cannot build ourselves. | $9,000 |
| Reaching students Getting in front of high school students who have never heard of us, through ads, school clubs and creators. | $3,500 |
| Workshop program Curriculum development, the platform we run sessions on, materials, and reaching schools outside our own network. | $2,000 |
| Fiscal sponsorship fee, 7 percent What Hack Club HCB charges on revenue. It replaces legal fees, startup fees and banking fees entirely, so we are not asking you for those. | $1,400 |
| Research with coaches and consultants Paying productivity coaches and consultants for their time, then publishing what actually works for free instead of keeping it. | $1,000 |
| Reserve So a slow quarter does not end the program. | $1,000 |
| Accessibility and translation Captioning workshop recordings and translating written guides. | $700 |
| Code signing certificates Apple and Windows certificates so people stop seeing security warnings when they install Daydock. This is the single biggest thing standing between us and normal adoption. | $600 |
| Director stipends 200 dollars per director per year. Not a salary. A small acknowledgement that keeps people going. | $600 |
| Domain, hosting and infrastructure A real domain instead of a free subdomain, plus what it costs to keep this site up. | $200 |
| Total | $20,000 |
What we will not spend it on
No salaries. No office. No paid tooling we could get free. No legal or incorporation fees, because fiscal sponsorship covers those. If we ever want to spend a grant on something outside this table, we will ask the funder first.
How the money is held.
01 Fiscal sponsorship, not a shell
We are applying to Hack Club HCB. That application is in progress. Once approved, funds are held by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) with EIN 81-2908499, and donations to The Daydock Foundation are tax deductible through them.
We are not claiming that status until it is granted, and we are not collecting money before then.
02 Finances you can actually look at
HCB offers a public transparency mode: a live ledger of every dollar in and every dollar out. We intend to turn it on and link it from this page, so you can check what we did with your grant without asking us.
03 Reporting
Downloads, workshops run and students reached, sent to funders on whatever schedule you need, and published here as well. If a number is bad we will publish the bad number.
If you fund us.
Your logo here
Supporters are listed on this site with their logo and a link, for as long as we exist. If you would rather stay anonymous, that is fine too.
Named support
If you fund a specific line, we will say so plainly. Someone will read that signing certificates were paid for by you.
Direct access
You get the founder's email and honest answers. We are small enough that this is not a promise we can break quietly.
Talk to us
Whether you are a foundation, a company with a grants program, a teacher who knows one, or a person who wants to chip in, the same email reaches us. Tell us what you need to see and we will put it together.