Updated: December 19, 2025
SaaS Pegasus is—at least for now—a closed-source, proprietary product. However, it is built on top of a vast open-source ecosystem.
I have wrestled with this situation since the early days of Pegasus. Pegasus benefits from the work of thousands of people who have shared their work for free. And while Pegasus has helped many entrepreneurs create life-changing businesses, it has done little to give back to the developers whose work it builds on.
As a small step towards rectifying this imbalance, Pegasus has adopted the Open Source Pledge. This means that Pegasus will donate at least $2,000 per-person, per-year, to open source projects, developers, and foundations.
I just made the 2025 donations to the following projects and mantainers that Pegasus depends on:
| Project | Amount |
|---|---|
| Django | $1,500 |
| django-allauth | $100 |
| htmx | $100 |
| dj-stripe | $100 |
| celery | $100 |
| Adam Johnson | $100 |
| Total | $2,000 |
While this is by no means a complete or fair representation of the software that Pegasus depends on, it’s a start that recognizes many major people and organizations whose work would be hard to replace in Pegasus.
Thanks to all the open source maintainers who have helped make Pegasus—and my career—possible!
2024 Donations
These are the donations that were made in 2024.
| Project | Amount |
|---|---|
| Django | $1,500 |
| django-allauth | $150 |
| htmx | $150 |
| dj-stripe | $150 |
| celery | $150 |
| Total | $2,100 |