Go-through of this article in video format.
Background
Tuomas Airaksinen Consulting, company of the lead developer, is providing a way to sponsor AndBible development. You can support AndBible development financially via the webshop.
I am reporting in monthly basis the significant numbers in this google sheets document.
See also: financial report for Q4/2023, Q1/2024 and Q2/2024.
Q3 / 2024
During this period, the pricing for sponsored work was 60€ / hour + VAT (VAT is applicable only for EU customers). In the table below, I am summarising Q3 hours and as a comparison also earlier months. What I consider eligible as payable development hours is discussed in this blog post.
| Date | Sponsored hours | Development hours | Development hours (not sponsored) | Paid in % |
| 9/2023 | 2.68 | 21.05 | 18.37 | 12.73% |
| 10/2023 | 4.92 | 32.65 | 25.06 | 23.25% |
| 11/2023 | 14.97 | 37.5 | 22.53 | 39.92% |
| 12/2023 | 15.11 | 13.98 | 0 | 100.00% |
| 1/2024 | 3.77 | 12.67 | 4.9 | 38.67% |
| 2/2024 | 1 | 3.65 | 1 | 27.40% |
| 3/2024 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1.8 | 75.00% |
| 4/2024 | 4.98 | 6.92 | 2 | 71.10% |
| 5/2024 | 18.59 | 14.93 | 0 | 100.00% |
| 6/2024 | 2.82 | 13.18 | 6.7 | 49.17% |
| 7/2024 | 5.75 | 7.87 | 5.75 | 73.06% |
| 8/2024 | 2.97 | 8.25 | 2.97 | 36.03% |
| 9/2024 | 0.5 | 4.22 | 0.5 | 11.85% |
Same in graphic form:

Observations:
- 👎Support is drying again. I wonder why – but I am guessing one reason could be that I have been quite non-active in Youtube and other social media.
- 👍Nevertheless, I have been able to maintain AndBible by fixing bugs and responding to user emails.
- 👍 App is still great, even with less development 🙂
- If the amount of support increases by time, I will be able to spend significantly more hours on developing AndBible.
Breakdown of tasks (December 2023-September 2024)
In December 2023, I started timing different tasks so that it is possible to analyze how the hours have been used. Here is the breakdown how paid hours were used:
| Paid tasks | Dec 2023 | Q1/2024 | Q2/2024 | Q3/2024 | Total |
| Support | 3.82 | 1.48 | 5.42 | 7.28 | 18.59 |
| Maintenance | 8.03 | 0.92 | 14.57 | 6.25 | 29.77 |
| Feature | 2.13 | 0 | 15.05 | 0.00 | 17.18 |
| Reviewing contributor’s code | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.28 | 2.28 |
| Total | 13.98 | 2.4 | 35.04 | 16.40 | 67.28 |
In other words, in Q4 statistics look like this:
- Support (help.andbible@gmail.com email mainly): 7.28 hours = 48%
- Maintenance tasks (bug fixing etc): 29.77 hours = 38.1 %
- New feature development: 0 hours = 0 %
- Reviewing contributor’s code: 2.28 hours = 13.9%
Same in graphic form:

Closing words
I want to thank every AndBible sponsor for making it possible to keep the app well maintained, supported and developing.
Best regards & blessings,
Tuomas Airaksinen
Lead developer of AndBible Open Source Project

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