Giving back

Hey — I'm Louie. I build Anythings myself, and until recently, every dollar it made went straight back into keeping it running: servers, App Store fees, the occasional coffee that kept me up finishing a feature.

That's still mostly true. But somewhere between reading through your feedback and watching people describe, in their own words, what it's meant to finally have a to-do list that works with their head instead of against it, keeping 100% of what this app makes stopped feeling like the right call.

So here's the commitment: on the last day of every month, Vollo Ventures LLC — the company that owns Anythings, which is really just me — donates 10% of that month's net revenue to a nonprofit. A different one every month.

Net means after Apple's, Stripe's, and RevenueCat's cut — the fees taken by the platforms that move the money before it ever reaches us. It's not net of what we spend to run the business — hosting, the AI behind Anythings, email, tools, keeping an app on the App Store. Those come out of the other 90%, same as any company's costs do. The distinction is simple: money we never actually touch, versus money we touch and then choose to spend. Not a marketing line item, not a one-time moment tied to a launch post. It comes out of what the app actually made that month, whether that number is small — it still is — or someday isn't.

Anythings used to be a subscription and isn't any more — it's a one-time purchase now. That doesn't change the rule: 10% of that month's net revenue, on the last day of the month, same as it was. What it changes is the shape of the number. A subscription meant one person counted a little every month, more or less forever. A one-time purchase counts once — all of it, in the month someone actually buys. The 10% on that purchase goes out that month and never again from that person.

Which means giving now moves with how the month genuinely went. There's no recurring base underneath to smooth the line out: a quiet month is a small donation, a good one is a bigger donation, and both get made. That's a worse spreadsheet and a more honest number — it is exactly what the app earned, in the month it earned it. Anyone still on an older subscription keeps counting in each month they renew, for as long as they stay.

Every donation is published below — the organization, the month, and the exact dollar figure, permanently. Early on those numbers look exactly like what they are: modest. That's fine. The story isn't "look how much" — it's that it happened, every month, without fail, and anyone can hold this to account for as long as Anythings exists.

If there's a cause you think deserves a month, I actually want to hear it — support@anythings.app, or find me in the threads.