Grasswire Blog
Updates, announcements, behind-the-scenes tales and in-depth stories from the Grasswire.com editorial team and community.
Grasswire Is Now Sustainable
I would like to take a moment to say “thank you” to all those who have rallied behind Grasswire in past weeks. As a result of all of those…efforts, we have an exciting announcement to make: Grasswire is now self-sustaining. ¶ That means that no matter what happens, the Grasswire you know and love isn’t going anywhere. ¶ The Grasswire community is truly incredible. ¶ Community Efforts ¶ First, members of the community rallied and raised money to cover all the immediate hosting costs — we met our goal in just a few days. Meanwhile, other members of the community stepped up to help us find hosting that we don’t need to pay for in…
Austen AllredFeb 3
Grasswire Is Now Open Source
We’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.Grasswire has been about the community behind it since day one. We’ve continually been blown away by the level of time, effort and quality volunteer contributors were putting into finding, verifying, producing, and fact-checking the news. ¶ Now we’re excited that the technology we spent the last 18 months building is open to that community as well. ¶ The code that powers the current Grasswire is now freely available on Github, and will soon be joined by an iOS app that’s almost finished and…Austen AllredJan 21
A Note about Grasswire
When we started Grasswire, we knew we would face many challenges in building an entirely crowdsourced news organization. We anticipated…that the journey would be filled with bumps in the road. ¶ Over the past few weeks we hit a few of those bumps. We were hoping to close a funding round with a new investment partner which would have allowed us to grow the team and further develop the technology, but it fell through at the last minute. Our existing investors are willing to invest again, but we didn’t feel that this investment opportunity would put us in the best position to scale the company.Austen AllredJan 15
