Behind the scenes
How Toon Tone stays online
Toon Tone is free, and stays that way. This page is the receipt — today's ad take, the rough running cost, and the gap that funds new modes.
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Today's ads vs. running cost
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Why this page exists
Hi, I'm Sam. I made this page because a free game should be honest about how it actually works — not to complain, just to keep the math visible.
Anything past running costs goes straight back in: new modes, more characters, smoother UX. The numbers stay here either way — no ask attached.
Where the $32/day goes
Rough estimate, not an audited bill. Revenue is real — pulled from the Adsterra Publisher API, refreshed every 6 hours (so click counts and totals lag by up to a few hours).
- Developer time
- $--/day $7.25/hr (US federal minimum) × ~3 hr/day — monitoring, weekly character drops, deploys, and small fixes. A floor on purpose; real dev time is worth far more.
- Hosting & compute
- $--/day K8s pod, always-on, plus build CI.
- Database & APIs
- $--/day Supabase, monitoring, third-party reporting.
- Bandwidth & domains
- $--/day CDN egress, two domains, TLS.
Like the game?
A coffee from a player funds the next mode and a few more characters. Totally optional — Toon Tone stays free either way.
☕ Buy me a coffee