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<h2>Why our finances are open</h2>
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Neocities is an <a href="http://www.opencompany.org">Open Company</a> startup, and are committed to openness as a defining element in how we create value.
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In the past, companies would not open source their software because they considered it dangerous to their business to do so. It took a long time to convince companies to use open source software, but today virtually all companies adopt and use open source software for building their infrastructure, and that's good for everybody.
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Despite this, most companies today still treat their backend infrastructure and business finances as proprietary. The result is that users become dependant on proprietary services that have bugs they cannot help fix, financial sustainability problems they can't discover, and limitations they cannot understand.
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We do not feel that opening of our finances constitutes as large of a risk as people believe, and that it instead leads to an erosion of user trust - the biggest problem facing startups today.
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We believe the trust relationship we build with our users from being honest and accountable in our operations is better for us in the long-term than being proprietary and secretive. So we invite our users to share in our failings and successes. It is our hope that this will help to improve Neocities as a service, and that it inspires other businesses to share this information in the future, for their own benefit and the benefit of their users.
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Note that we do not disclose everything publicly. For example, we do not reveal the locations of our servers, the identities of our users, investors (if they choose to be anonymous) or any salaries or dividends we choose to issue. There are very legitimate security and privacy considerations to consider when providing open data, and we understand and respect that.
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If you have any questions regarding our finances or ideas for improving our business model, please don't hesitate to <a href="/contact">contact us</a>.
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<h2>General Stats</h2>
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