Read the Docs

About Read the Docs

Read the Docs has grown substantially since its beginning as a weekend project and is closing in on being a top-1000 site on the internet. Today, we:

We fund our operations through sponsorship and support, advertising, and corporate-hosted documentation.

Sponsorship & Support

Sponsors

Our servers are graciously sponsored by Microsoft Azure, at a value of $3,000 each month. They are our single largest sponsor, and Read the Docs wouldn't be possible without their generous support. You can view the full list of past sponsors in our documentation.

If your company shares our passion for documentation, or if you want to support our mission, contact us for more information on sponsoring Read the Docs.

Our Supporters

Below is a list of all the wonderful people who have supported our vision.

Thanks

This program is modeled after the fantastic Django Fellowship. Thanks for the inspiration.

Advertising

Advertising is our largest source of funding and has allowed Read the Docs to expand from its best-effort supported beginnings to the company we are today with a small but dedicated team of full-time engineers supporting free and open documentation.

In 2016, we launched our Ethical Ads initiative to build an advertising model that doesn't track our readers and respects their privacy. We have proven that this model works to fund open source infrastructure.

If your company is interested in reaching a 100% developer audience, please consider advertising on Read the Docs.

Our Advertisers

Below is a list of some of the great companies actively supporting Read the Docs through advertising.

  • Segment
    Segment provides the customer data infrastructure that businesses use to put their customers first. With Segment, companies can collect, unify, and connect their first-party data to over 200 marketing, analytics, and data warehousing tools.
  • Digital Ocean
    Digital Ocean is the cloud infrastructure provider built by developers to solve your business needs.
  • Geekbot
    Geekbot seamlessly creates a standup meeting with the members of your team through Slack. All you have to do is answer a set of questions that the bot then posts to a channel.
  • JetBrains
    JetBrains is the maker of PyCharm, a Python IDE that enables Web and Data Science developers to become more productive.
  • Datadog
    Datadog offer next-generation application performance monitoring and helps you monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize end-to-end application performance.
  • Triplebyte
    Triplebyte helps you get hired. Go through Triplebyte once, then skip straight to final interviews with top tech companies.
  • Rollbar
    Rollbar helps you catch errors before your users do. You can resolve errors in minutes and deploy with confidence.
  • Codacy
    Codacy helps you automatically identify issues through static code analysis. Get notified on security issues, code coverage, code duplication, and code complexity in every commit and pull request.
  • Tidelift
    Tidelift makes open source work better—for everyone. Tidelift gives software development teams a single source for purchasing and maintaining their software and they give maintainers a way to get paid for doing the work they love.