Funding

💰 Funding.md – How We (Barely) Keep the Lights On

Welcome to the gritty side of the project. No VCs. No pitch decks. Just a couple of developers, a shared dream, and... a very modest server bill.

🧃 “We don’t have runway. We have a scooter ride.”

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🧾 The Reality Check

We're not building a rocket. We're building a research terminal that feels like magic ✨ – while living off instant noodles and vercel.json.

Here's the plan: keep costs barebones, pay ourselves enough for a coffee or two a month, and make sure BullsEye runs 24/7 without coughing up a 500 error.

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💸 Yearly Budget Plan

Item	Description	Cost (USD)
🛠️ Supabase	Encrypted chat history, edge functions, storage	$96
⚡ Vercel	Frontend & API hosting (hobby plan++)	$120
👨‍💻 Dev Payment – Om	One-time yearly token of appreciation	$100
👩‍💻 Dev Payment – Durva D	Also deserves caffeine and a domain	$100
☕ Emergency Fund	Domain, cookies, retries	$34
Total	Shoestring Budget™	$450

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🪙 How You Can Help

If you’re using BullsEye and it’s made you smile, saved you taxes, or stopped you from FOMO-ing into junk stocks... consider sponsoring us:

• ☕ Buy us a Coffee
• 💼 GitHub Sponsor (coming soon)
• [📬 Send Stickers](just kidding... unless?)

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🧠 Why So Cheap?

Because:

• We reuse everything. Same Supabase project, same Vercel tier.
• We don’t need GPT-4... yet.
• We believe constraints = creativity.

“If AWS bills are low, your soul is intact.”

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🛡️ Sustainably Open

We’re not in this to scale. We’re in this to build something useful for ourselves and friends. The project is open-source, but responsibly maintained with strong boundaries (and weak bank accounts).

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🧩 Maintainers:

• @omsandippatil – Builder of APIs, breaker of tests
• @durvadongre – UX ninja, Supabase whisperer

We’ll keep building – just help us keep the lights on, yeah?

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BullsEye: Open Finance. Closed Wallet.™