Hello! My name is Robin Brämer and I am a full-time developer. I am the creator and project lead of Minekube/Gate, a high performance multi-version Minecraft proxy ready for the cloud, and Minekube/Connect, a modern way to connect and build Minecraft server networks globally.

All my open source projects are completely free to use. The tremendous amount of effort needed to maintain the projects and coordinate the community efforts in the ecosystems is only made sustainable thanks to the generous financial backing of our sponsors and backers.

Sponsoring as a Business

Sponsoring Minekube gives you great exposure to our community of developers around the world through our website and GitHub project READMEs (see tiers for details). In addition, supporting OSS improves the reputation of your brand, which is an important asset for any company that interacts with developers.

If you are using Gate or Connect to build a revenue-generating product, it makes business sense to sponsor their development: it ensures the projects that your product relies on stays healthy and actively maintained. The exposure and positive brand image in the community also makes it easier to attract and recruit developers.

If you are building a product where your target customers are developers, you will gain high quality traffic through the sponsorship exposure, since all our visitors are developers and Minecraft users. The sponsorship also builds brand recognition and improves conversion.

Sponsoring as an Individual

If you are an individual user and have enjoyed the productivity of using my open source, consider sponsoring me as a sign of appreciation - like buying me coffee once in a while. If you are not comfortable with a monthly-recurring sponsorship, GitHub also supports one-time donations!

You can also try to convince your employer to sponsor my projects as a business. This may not be easy, but business sponsorship typically make a much larger impact on the sustainability of OSS projects than individual donations, so you will help us much more if you succeed.