Support The Pod Companion
Everything on this site is free — the mana base tools, the deck audit, the game logger and its stats, and the app when it ships. That isn't a promotional period; free is the point, and nothing useful will ever sit behind a paywall. Ads cover part of the bills. The rest comes out of my pocket and my evenings.
If a tool here fixed your mana base, or your pod finally settled the going-first argument with real numbers, and you feel like chipping in — this page is how. No pressure, and no unlocks: supporting doesn't buy features, because nothing is locked.
Where your support goes
Server Costs
Hosting, the domain, and the database that keeps your game logs, decks, and collections safe and synced. It's the baseline bill that exists whether or not anyone chips in, and it grows with every new account.
Card Data Processing
Nightly jobs that keep card data, printings, and market prices current across the tens of thousands of Magic cards the tools search through.
Feature Development
The deck builder, the collection manager, pod stats — and a backlog that grows faster than the evenings do. Support buys build time.
Mobile App Development
The Android life tracker that will record your games automatically at the table, plus the unglamorous costs around it: store fees and test devices.
Ways to support
Monthly Supporter
$3 / month — a coffee a month. It covers a slice of the hosting bill, and it tells me better than any analytics chart that this site is worth the evenings.
Premium Supporter
$8 / month — for the pod that uses the logger every week. Keeps the servers comfortably ahead of the features, with room left over for the app.
All support currently runs through Buy Me a Coffee — the payment itself happens on their site, and you confirm the amount there before anything is charged.
Coming later: pay directly on this page
Direct card payments — powered by Stripe, with the preset amounts above charged exactly and no detour through a third-party page — are planned. Same policy as the app: I'm not going to promise a date. The buttons above will simply stop detouring when it's ready.
Other ways to help
Not in a position to chip in? Genuinely fine — the best support is using the site. Share a tool with your pod, report a bug or a wrong number, and log your games: every logged game makes the public stats a truer picture of Commander at real tables.
Thanks either way, and go brew something interesting.
— Gant