Support Mix The Grid

Drawing mashups is free, the archive is free, and the daily leaderboard is free. It will stay that way. If you would like to help with what it costs to keep running, this is the one place to do it.

What it costs

Hosting, a domain, and a copy of the results archive that has to be refreshed after every race weekend. That is the whole budget — there are no ads, no tracking scripts and no investors expecting a return.

Founding supporter

A single one-off payment of $30 for anyone who would rather back the site at the start than at the till. It buys one thing: a founding-supporter star beside your name on the leaderboard — no extra scored mashups, no points, no place in the day's standings. No subscription, nothing renews, and the receipt says what it was for. The link stops taking payments once the cap is reached, so it will not be here forever.

The star goes on the account for the email you pay with — sign in first and it is credited at once, or we email you a link afterwards.
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A scan opens the same checkout: the star is credited to the account for the email you pay with, whether or not this device is signed in. The amount is the same either way.

What a donation is not

It is not a subscription and it buys nothing on the site: not extra scored mashups, not a place on the board. (The founding supporter option above is the one exception — a star beside your name is the one thing it buys, and a star is not an advantage.) The leaderboard has to be the same game for everybody who plays it, so supporters and everyone else are ranked identically. Give because you like the thing, and only if it costs you nothing you will miss.

Or give another amount One-off, by card, through Stripe — the amount is set on the next page and can be changed there.
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You will leave this site for Stripe's checkout. Card details are entered there and never reach this server, which keeps no record of a payment beyond what Stripe reports. A donation is a gift, not a purchase: nothing is supplied in return, and it is not tax-deductible. Who runs this site.