Every month
| What | Per month |
|---|---|
| The workbench A Claude subscription. Kith is one person building on evenings, and this is the difference between a tool a month and a tool a year. | $100 |
| Electricity The server isn’t in a data centre. It’s a machine on a shelf in my house, awake all night, every night, running the Discord bots, the resource scraper and the uptime watch. About sixty watts around the clock, at the nineteen cents a kilowatt-hour we pay here. | $8 |
| The names kith-swg.com, and the old blueshift-swg.com kept alive so nobody’s old bookmark breaks. Twelve dollars a year each, shown here as a monthly share. | $2 |
| Roughly | $110 |
It moves a little month to month. A busy week in the studio costs more than a quiet one. Nobody is paid anything. The building is done for love and stubbornness, on evenings, and that part isn’t on the bill.
And once, up front
| The machine Bought once, so the town could stop renting a stranger’s server in a data centre and live somewhere I can actually reach. It should last years. That figure is what these parts cost to buy used today rather than what I paid for them; memory has climbed a long way since. Nobody needs to help with this one; it’s here because a bill with a piece missing isn’t an open bill. Ryzen 7 3700X, 8 cores · Gigabyte X570 · 32 GB RAM · 500 GB NVMe + 112 GB SSD · Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | $455 |
Who pays it
I do, out of pocket, and I’d keep paying it if nobody ever read this page. Kith was never built to make money. It exists because a handful of us got tired of guessing at resource stats and sketching builds on notepads at work.
If you ever want to help
There’s a tip jar on Ko-fi. One-off or a couple of dollars a month, whichever suits. You can stop a monthly one yourself, any time, without asking me.
And if you never do: genuinely, nothing changes. Nothing here is locked, nothing is slower, nothing is missing, and there is no supporter tier — because the moment money buys something, the tools stop being free for everyone else. Using them, filing a bug, or telling somebody in general chat that they exist is worth more to this than a fiver.