# gratipay/gratipay.com

Here lieth a pioneer in open source sustainability. RIP

Repository: https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gratipaycom
Homepage: https://gratipay.news/the-end-cbfba8f50981
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-12-05T15:56:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5206, "days_push": 3193, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1124, forks 301 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:40.846830+00:00)

## What it is
Gratipay was a web platform that let companies and individuals pay for open source work through recurring donations. This repository contains the full server-side application (Python/Postgres) that powered gratipay.com; the project was shut down and is no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- fund open source projects with recurring donations
- accept weekly contributions for my open source work
- let companies sponsor open source developers
- study how a donation-based open source funding platform was built
- self-host a recurring payment platform for creators
- learn from a historical Python web application codebase

## When to choose
- you want to study or fork a proven open source funding platform
- you need reference code for recurring payment flows in Python
- you are researching open source sustainability models

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, production-ready funding platform
- you cannot work with Python 2.7 and Postgres 9.6
- you need support or security updates - the project is dead

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, http-server, api-framework
- domain: web-development, fintech, developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: open-source-sustainability, crowdfunding, payments, dead-project, gratipay, payment, open-source-funding, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- gratipay/gratipay.com (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:40.846830+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:39:39.122658+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:40.846830+00:00, sha 89bbd8c53290)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.