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One-time or monthly, any amount helps. SelfScience is a solo project right now, so every contribution has a real, direct impact on what gets built next.
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What your donation funds
SelfScience runs on a tiny stack of costs that keep it honest. Here’s the real breakdown:
AI processing costs
Every reliability score, plain-language translation, and genome interpretation runs through an AI model. Those aren't free at scale. Your support covers the API costs so search stays fast and free for everyone.
Keeping SelfScience free
No paywall, no premium tier, no data harvesting. The whole platform stays open and educational for anyone who lands on it.
Editorial research time
Reading the studies. Writing the annotations. Building the reading list with an honest note on what's well-supported and what isn't. That's the work donations make possible.
Zero ads, zero supplement upsells, zero sponsored studies
The moment SelfScience takes advertising or affiliate money, its scoring can't be trusted. Donations are the alternative that lets us tell you the truth about a study — even when it's a study we'd rather like.
Where does the money actually go?
Right now, SelfScience is bootstrapped and self-funded by one person. Contributions go directly into the costs above — not salaries, not marketing, not vanity spend.
When contributions start to consistently outpace running costs, we’ll publish a transparent expense breakdown on this page so you can see exactly where your support went. That’s the standard honest projects hold themselves to.
Other ways to help
- Tell a friend. Someone in your life just downloaded their 23andMe results. Send them the link.
- Send feedback. Broken thing? Missing feature? A study we should surface? Email contact@selfscience.io.
- Correct us. If we mis-scored a study or missed a bias, tell us. Honest corrections are the whole point.
- Cite us. If you write about health research, link back to the studies you found here.
Ready to chip in?
Even a one-time coffee’s worth keeps the AI credits topped up for a whole day of searches.