Dear #rubyfriends—
For over a decade (a billion gem installs and counting!), Hanami, Dry, and Rom have sought to elevate your Ruby.
We’ve elevated your apps, giving you drop-in tools for strict typing, flexible validation, business logic handling, database layers and more, all the way to a batteries-included framework.
We’ve elevated your skills, helping you blend functional and object oriented styles and create clearer data flows and separations of concern, leading to maintainable architectures that are a pleasure to work on.
And we’ve elevated Ruby itself, providing essential variety through our technical innovation and friendly, inclusive community.
Now we’re preparing to take the Hanami family to the next level. This year, we will:
- Merge Hanami with Dry and Rom to create a single compelling Ruby toolkit backed by a unified community and maintainer team.
- Focus on helping our users become more successful with our tools.
- Establish paid ongoing maintenance of Hanami for the very first time.
Together, these will put Hanami on a sustainable trajectory for our second decade and beyond. We’re here for the long run.
We need your help to make this happen! We need you and your Ruby business to become Hanami patrons.
We’d love for you to join Mike Perham, Honeybadger, Brandon Weaver and FastRuby in ensuring a sustainable future for Hanami, and a more diverse Ruby ecosystem.
Hanami project lead
Our goals
We’re aiming to raise USD $70k/year, ongoing.
With this funding, we can:
- Continue to make improvements, fixes and releases of all gems, including renewed attention on Dry and Rom.
- Improve the Hanami developer experience. Better CLI, more helpful errors, easier testing approaches, even an LSP.
- Write new learning material and documentation.
- Create a new Hanami community hub to bring users together from across the whole ecosystem.
Milestone 1: $40k
1 day/week of ongoing work from Tim, plus a small reserve for community and promotional activities.
Your support can give Hanami paid ongoing maintenance for the very first time. Help me lead Hanami without burning out! 😅
Milestone 2: $70k
1 day/week of ongoing work from Sean.
Hanami is bigger than any one person, and we’re better when we band together! I would be delighted to bring on Sean as a second paid maintainer before increasing my own time.
The fineprint — This is not an "all-or-nothing" fundraising campaign. We will put any financial support to immediate use for work on Hanami. Your money will go far, as it will directly fund Ruby gem development; there is no administrative overhead in Hanami’s own operations.
You’re in good company
Thank you to these amazing people and businesses who are already supporting Hanami’s future! Maybe you can join them?
Hear from our patrons
Become a business patron
As a Hanami patron, you’ll receive several direct benefits:
- Private chat with Hanami maintainers
- Priority attention on your issues or requests
- Your logo and link on the brand new Hanami website
- Shoutouts on social media and in release announcements
The Hanami team works at the forefront of exploring new avenues for Ruby apps. Our continued success can help bring about a new kind of inclusivity in Ruby, for tools and people both.
By supporting Hanami, you can count yourself among the true avant garde of Ruby businesses. This is your chance to be the first in these ranks.
- Large logo on Hanami home page
- Logo in footer of all Hanami pages, including docs
- Shoutout in every release
- Regular social media mentions
- Access to private chat
- Priority for issues & requests
- Twice-yearly call with Tim
- Medium logo on Hanami home page
- Shoutout in every release
- Regular social media mentions
- Access to private chat
- Priority for issues & requests
- Yearly call with Tim
- Small logo on Hanami home page
- Social media shoutouts
- Access to private chat
Please reach out if you want to discuss a different yearly commitment.
Thank you to Ruby Central for handling our yearly business contributions!
Support us in the community
We welcome any kind of support from Ruby community members! ❤️
You can:
- Become a community patron. Support Hanami through GitHub Sponsors at whatever amount you choose.
- Bring this pitch to the financial decision-makers at your workplace.
- Share this post on social media. Big things are happening for Hanami and we want everyone to know.
Thank you for your consideration. This is a big step, and your support means the world to us.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions at all.
Together, we can make a better Ruby.