Financial report for Q4 / 2024

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, Q2/2024, and Q3/2024.

Q4 / 2024

During this period, the pricing for sponsored work was 60€ / hour. 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%
10/2024	9.1	2.93	6.17	100%
11/2024	1.9	9.03	0	89.37%
12/2024	4.24	3.57	0.67	100%

Same in graphic form:

Note: During my christmas holiday I also implemented better E-Ink support in my own time (i.e. work was self-sponsored). I did not calculate those hours, but it was roughly 3 full days total. This work is not included in any of these numbers.

Observations:

• 👎Total support is still far from goal (4 full working days per month) but there has been some improvement.
• 👍Nevertheless, I have been able to maintain AndBible by fixing bugs and responding to user emails.
• 👍 E-ink support is great!
• 👍 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-December 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	Q4/2024	Total
Support	3.82	1.48	5.42	7.28	7.35	18.59
Maintenance	8.03	0.92	14.57	6.25	8.03	29.77
Feature	2.13	0	15.05	0.00	0.09	17.18
Reviewing contributor’s code	0	0	0	2.28	4.02	2.28
Total	13.98	2.4	35.04	16.40	19.40	67.28

In other words, in Q4 statistics look like this:

• Support (help.andbible@gmail.com email mainly): 7.35 hours = 37.9%
• Maintenance tasks (bug fixing etc): 8.03 hours = 41.4 %
• New feature development: 0 hours = 0 %
• Reviewing contributor’s code: 4.02 hours = 20.7%

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