Value for value

Bark is free. Not freemium, not free-until-we-raise, not free-in-exchange-for-your-data. Free, MIT licensed, and it stays that way.

Why we work this way

ForgeSworn is two developers building signing infrastructure for Nostr: this extension, the Heartwood hardware signer, the Android signer, the management tools, and a stack of open cryptography libraries underneath. No company, no token, no venture capital waiting for a return.

That model only works one way: if what we build is worth something to you, you send some of that value back. The price is whatever you think is honest, including nothing at all if times are tight. That's not a guilt trip; it's how value for value is supposed to work.

What your support actually funds

Store fees and accounts. Chrome, Firefox, and eventually Apple all charge for the privilege of shipping you free software.
Prototype hardware. Heartwood development means real ESP32 boards on a real bench, and the failed revisions you never see.
Test infrastructure. Relays, devices, and browsers for the e2e suites that keep a signing tool trustworthy.
Time. The honest one. Every hour funded is an hour on the next release instead of something else.

Ways to send value

Bitcoin / Lightning

The native way. Geyser takes on-chain and Lightning, and every sat lands with the project.

Geyser: forgesworn

GitHub Sponsors

Recurring or one-off, on the platform you already have an account with. GitHub takes no cut.

Sponsor on GitHub

Ko-fi

A one-off coffee by card, no account needed. The simplest option if you're not a Bitcoin person yet.

Buy a coffee

Skint but still want to help? Star the repo, file a decent bug report, fix a translation in your language, or tell one person why their nsec shouldn't live in a browser. All of that is value too.