I'm Nick and I have a passion for coding and love to tackle the challenges that arise. I don't, however, enjoy worrying about the mounting costs in order to maintain and continue development on projects and apps under my umbrella. The goal with Github sponsors is to eliminate any financial drain a project may have.

So what are some of these costs?

Costs

Rakaly

I'm the creator and main developer behind Rakaly, which is an in browser analysis engine for Europa Universalis IV (EU4) saves, as well as lower level APIs that other projects can use to parse or convert files to other formats. Running the site involves:

• Application Database
• Leaderboard Database
• API Server
• File Storage
• CDN
• Domain Name
• Game purchases to ensure support

With these costs covered it will be feasible to create more features that would be more expensive to implement (require more processing power / more storage), and allow all users to benefit from these features.

Tools

I've also authored several tools over the year to scratch an itch, and it turns out that others share the same itch. Here are some tools:

• dness: a dynamic dns client. It would be nice to not need to worry about paying for domain names to test out providers or need to purchase membership.
• OhmGraphite: a windows service that reports hardware metrics to a database. I'd like to acquire different hardware to ensure that different combinations work, as right now I can only test on limited hardware. Additional hardware would be useful for me to document over on sff.life
• boxcars: a rocket league replay parser. With each patch, rocket league can break every parser, it's important to always keep up with the latest version.