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Open source runs on gratitude. Gratitude doesn't pay rent
You're reading this on software built from open source. So is almost everything else. The people who wrote it get stars, issues, and the occasional "thanks!" in a comment thread. Rarely money. Opentip doesn't fix open source funding — nothing single-handedly does — but it removes every excuse not to send something when a repo has genuinely helped you.
How it works
01
Change one word in a URL.
Take any GitHub repo link. Swap github.com for opentip.tech. That's the whole trick.
02
Send a tip. No account needed.
Connect a wallet, pick an amount, send it. You can tip in ETH or USDC — either way, the developer only ever sees USDC land in their balance. Your $10 stays worth $10, no matter what the market does five minutes later.
03
The developer claims it, whenever.
Tips sit there, accumulating, until the developer decides to claim them. Nobody's holding their money hostage. Nobody's approving anything. It's theirs the moment it lands, they just choose when to move it.
Why it's built this way
We never touch your money.
Tips go straight into a smart contract, not into a company bank account. Opentip can't freeze it, delay it, or lose it. The contract does exactly what its code says, and the code is public.
Volatility is someone else's problem, not the developer's.
If you tip in ETH, it's converted to USDC before it ever reaches the contract. A developer who did great work today shouldn't watch their tip lose 8% of its value by the weekend.
Everything is checkable.
Every tip, every claim, every fee — it's all sitting on Basescan for anyone to go look at. We're not asking you to trust a dashboard. Trust the chain.
5% keeps the lights on. That's it.
Developers keep 95% of every tip. The other 5% funds Opentip itself — no hidden cuts, no surprise fees, nothing else in between.
For developers
Fee breakdown
No fine print. This is the whole thing.
95%
Goes to developer
5%
Keeps Opentip running
$1
Minimum tip, so gas fees never eat someone's $0.25