Sponsors Tiers Are Live — Five Ways to Keep Bambuddy Independent

[MartinNYHC]

Hey everyone,

The Bambuddy Sponsors program is now fully live with five recurring tiers. If you've been waiting for a way to back the project that's more than a one-off tip, here it is.

The tiers — what you get:

Backer — $5/mo

Your name in BACKERS.md. The warm feeling of keeping a local-first project alive.

Supporter — $15/mo

Everything in Backer, plus:

• Access to a private sponsors space
• Monthly sponsor newsletter
• Early release notes before public announcement

️ Patron — $35/mo

Everything in Supporter, plus:

• A vote on the quarterly roadmap
• First Patron vote opens June 2026 on Q3 features

Sustaining Sponsor — $150/mo

Everything in Patron, plus:

• Direct async email line to me for technical questions - ~2-3 business day response

Corporate — $500/mo

Everything in Sustaining Sponsor, plus:

• Priority email response (next business day)
• Your logo in the README header
• Your logo in the sitewide footer on bambuddy.cool
• Placement on the Press page

Sign up: https://github.com/sponsors/maziggy
One-time tip instead: https://ko-fi.com/maziggy

Why this exists

Bambuddy is principled local-first software. No cloud, no telemetry, no upsells, no enterprise SKU hiding behind the OSS edition. Igor's Lab framed it as "a principled alternative to Bambu Cloud" and I want to keep that promise. Sponsors are how that stays true — every dollar goes into shipping the next release, not into building a paywall around the current one.

If you're running Bambuddy in production (especially with multiple printers, an LDAP setup, or in a workshop / makerspace) and it's saving you time, the Sustaining Sponsor or Corporate tier is what underwrites the support response time and roadmap influence you'd otherwise have to negotiate as a contract.

What I won't do

• No hosted SaaS tier. The project stays self-hostable forever.
• No feature gated behind a sponsor tier. Everything that's in OSS Bambuddy today stays in OSS Bambuddy.
• No vendor lock-in. AGPL-3.0, your data on your hardware.

Questions, feedback, or "I'd sponsor if X were a perk"? Reply in this thread.

Thanks to everyone who's already on board.

— Martin