Since then, the amount of money we make in donations is very small. At best, it typically covers our annual domain registration fees. That isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate the money that people do donate, but I have questioned whether we should have the donation button there at all.

Then every once in a while something strange happens: someone donates a lot of money. Matt Mullenweg was the first person to donate a lot of money (and I was finally able to thank him in person on last Monday when he came into TechStars).

Two weeks ago we released Garden & Vanilla 2 on GitHub, and three days later I received another very large donation. This time the donation came from long-time supporter David McKendrick of fused network, a hosting company. I contacted David to personally thank him, and he responded:

[…] have always loved what you do and even though I’ve been following you for years — never did have the ‘liquidity’ to really reward you as much as I should have been. […] I’ve got a lot of faith in [Vanilla] & your other endeavors.

Thanks, David!