Our tech stack

Every tool we use is either free or open source. We run the entire organization - 39+ plugins, this website, CI/CD, community - at $0 per month.

Hosting & CDN

Zero-cost, carbon-aware infrastructure that scales without bills.

Cloudflare Pages - Static hosting - free tier, global edge network
Cloudflare DNS - DNS and DDoS protection - free
GitHub Pages - Fallback / secondary hosting - free

Code & CI/CD

Everything lives in the open, built and tested automatically.

GitHub - Source control, issues, project boards - free for open source
GitHub Actions - CI/CD pipelines, automated builds and deploys - free for public repos
Git - Version control - open source

Frontend

Fast, modern tooling that outputs zero JavaScript where possible.

Astro - Static site generator - open source, ships zero JS by default
Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework - open source
TypeScript - Type safety for content collections and config

WordPress

The ecosystem we build for. Everything GPL, everything free.

WordPress - CMS - GPL, powers 40%+ of the web
WooCommerce - E-commerce - GPL, the base for many of our plugins
WP-CLI - Command-line management - open source
PHPStan - Static analysis for plugin code quality

Community

Where we coordinate, discuss, and help each other.

Discord - Real-time chat, support, and contributor coordination - free
GitHub Discussions - Long-form conversations and RFCs - free
GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests - free

Testing & Quality

Automated testing and code quality tools.

Vitest - Unit testing for the website - open source
PHPUnit - Unit testing for WordPress plugins - open source
WordPress Coding Standards - PHP_CodeSniffer rules for WP conventions

Dev Tools

The tools we actually use, every day.

VS Code - Primary editor - open source
pnpm - Package management - free
Docker - Local WordPress development environments - open source
Playwright - End-to-end testing - open source

Why this matters

If we can run an entire open-source organization for free, so can you. We deliberately choose tools that don't lock us (or our contributors) into paid plans, vendor lock-in, or proprietary ecosystems.

This isn't about being cheap - it's about proving that good software doesn't require a budget. Every dollar we don't spend on infrastructure is a dollar we never need to extract from our users.

Monthly infrastructure cost

100%

Open-source stack

GPL + MIT

Licensing

Want to see how it all fits together?

View this site's source code