Beerpay

Discontinued

Last updated 2026-03-15 · Update this page

Historical record. This platform is discontinued and should not be treated as an active option.

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.

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Goal: Funding. Model: Bounties. Status: Historical.

Should you use this?

Best for: Scoped issues, audits, tasks, and contribution work with clear deliverables.
Not ideal for: Ongoing maintainer labor that cannot be broken into concrete tasks.
Why choose it: Beerpay was a GitHub-linked service for tipping maintainers and attaching cash bounties to open source features or issues.
Watch out for: Poorly scoped bounties can create review burden without sustainable support.
Setup effort: Review setup requirements
Fees: Surviving public references confirm Stripe and Bitcoin support, but a definitive historical fee schedule could not be validated.
Last verified: 2026-03-15
Sources: Source 1
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Goal Funding

Model Bounties

Tags

OSS-specific

Official website	Visit official website
Verification	Unverified
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.