The internet should stay useful, open, and worth building for.

Dear internet builder,

Software that people love often looks free from the outside. Behind it are independent developers paying for infrastructure, answering support messages, fixing the next browser update, and deciding whether they can afford to keep going.

Ads, subscriptions, and selling user data are not the only answers. Mellowtel is building a consent-first monetization layer: people can choose to share a small fraction of unused internet resources, businesses use that network to access public web data, and part of the revenue goes back to the developers whose products make the network possible.

The choice is reversible. The core library is open source. Personal browsing data is not the product. We believe a sustainable internet can also be a respectful one.

We are here to help more useful software survive, and give the people who use it a real say in how it is funded.