Beyond Donations: FUTO's Vision for a Sustainable Software Ecosystem

The software we build should provide a welcome contrast to Silicon Valley corporations packed with ads, tracking, and spyware. With our software, we will never remove features, implement ads, paywall functionality, or violate your privacy. However, this costs money, and providing high-quality products that respect users is only sustainable if we can meet our second goal.

We want to show the top 1% of programmers and developers that it’s possible to make a living creating good software that respects users instead of exploiting them. If we can make this work, perhaps talented developers will quit working for abusive tech megacorps and start building software that truly benefits people.

We have committed to putting a few million dollars into Immich over the next several years. We believe Immich is a fundamentally better product than both Google Photos and iCloud. Through our funding, we want to show users commercial open source consumer software can be delightful products that normal people can easily use. People deserve better than half-baked projects that never make it to completion.

We’re not interested in making products that are merely “okay for open source.” We want Immich and our other projects to be best-in-class competitors to big tech, period !

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