[CarrotCodes]

Adopt Animals (https://www.adoptanimals.io/) - a charitable passion project for free, independent, and ad/tracking-free animal rehoming listings in the UK.

We're partnering with one shelter in Edinburgh (Scotland) to start, and built the website and a pair of apps to showcase animal listings. We've had a few success stories of people finding pets already, which is really motivating!

If you know of a shelter in the UK who might want their listings on there (ideally they'll have a means of exporting them and we'll build an importer), let them know to get in touch with us :)

[bbstilson]

I really like the design and, of course, the mission! Good luck!

[CarrotCodes]

Thank you!

For interest, we also just submitted our annual report to our regulator, if you'd like to read about the first year of our parent charity https://www.kale.charity/reports

[CoffeePython]

How are the developers compensated? Are you all doing this for free? Love the project but interested in the practicalities behind it.

[CarrotCodes]

There are currently 3 trustees of the charity, including myself, and no employees. It’s illegal for trustees to be compensated for work relating to the charity. We’re careful to pick problems (and solutions) that we can make and maintain.

I focus on the engineering, my partner focuses on anything design related, and our third trustee manages finances.

We do it because we’re passionate about it, and the legal structure gives us a lot of weight and ability to negotiate reduced rates with services we depend on. It also sets us up to pay other developers, if/when we decide there’s too much for us to do as a team. Folks might want to donate their time as well, but we will need to be mindful of properly compensating people for their time.

[CoffeePython]

Thanks for the response! Sounds interesting. I’ll have to look more into it. I love the idea of building software as a charity