Beerpay

Discontinued Unverified

Last updated 2026-03-15 · Update this page

Discontinued. This listing is kept in OSS.Fund for reference, but the platform no longer appears active.

Beerpay let supporters fund open source work directly from GitHub by tipping maintainers or putting money behind specific features and issues. The service is discontinued, but it remains a useful historical example of lightweight issue-based funding built around GitHub workflows.

Area Funding

Category Bounties

Tags

OSS-specific

Official website	https://beerpay.io/
Organization	Corporation
Open source status	Closed source
Platform technology	Closed source web service
Monetization model	Issue funding and maintainer tips
Payment methods	Stripe and Bitcoin
Platform fees	Surviving public references confirm Stripe and Bitcoin support, but a definitive historical fee schedule could not be validated.
User activity	Beerpay is discontinued. Surviving public references describe it as a GitHub-based service for tips and issue funding.
Evidence	https://alternativeto.net/software/beerpay/about/ https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=blacksqr