Help Open Food Facts stay afloat
38.299,06 €
Raised
158
Gifts
170.000 €
Goal
💛 Support the infrastructure that makes this project possible.
Goal: to fund 12 months of infrastructure
Please note that Open Food Facts is an organisation independent of the food industry. If you are a food company, we cannot accept donations from you. However, you are still welcome to share your product data with us in the spirit of transparency! Please contact us at: producers@openfoodfacts.org
For donations of over €2,000, please contact us at: contact@openfoodfacts.org
We’re often described as the Wikipedia of food, or even as THE global collaborative project in this field.
As a digital public good, we provide everything we produce free of charge. We have no shortage of projects and we manage to secure dedicated funding. But one aspect is particularly difficult to fund: the technical infrastructure.
But what is infrastructure?
Every time you scan a product, our servers search through 4.4 million entries, calculate the Nutri-Score, the Green-Score and the degree of processing, retrieve the photo, analyse the additives and send all this information back to you in a matter of seconds.
This happens 4 million times a month. Every month. Behind the scenes, there are servers, databases, backups, security systems...
➡️ That’s what infrastructure is: the hidden part of the iceberg!
BUT infrastructure is invisible as long as it works.
-> That is precisely why nobody wants to fund it. (95% of our funding is earmarked for specific projects, not for technical maintenance).
Result:
Today, our main server is running at three times its normal capacity.
Risk of major failure
The technical team spends 30% of its time dealing with incidents.
Consequences:
Deteriorating response times
Increasing security risks to data on millions of users’ products
We are unable to develop projects that make a difference
The cost of all this:
In 2025, running the Open Food Facts infrastructure cost around €169,660
In 2026, it will be €172,360, but only 30% has already been funded.
⚠️ We need to find the rest
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Help us keep Open Food Facts running Your donation helps fund: ⚙️ the servers 🔐 data security 💾 backups 🛠 technical maintenance 📡 the API used by hundreds of applications And continues to make millions of product data points transparent and free for consumers & researchers worldwide! Thank you on behalf of the Open Food Facts community ! |
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Johan Richer
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€52.47
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Jeanine
donated
€100
Bravo pour vote excellent travail ❤️
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Steven
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Georgi
donated
€10
I believe this project and its mission are important, but sorry I don't see enough work progress for supporting it by greater sum. Multilanguage support is bad. RTL support doesn't exist, UX is a fucking hell both on the website and the app. Too many too huge buttons, so I need to scroll too much every time I need to check something. There is plenty of data types that I want to hide (as Nutri-score which is useless in my country, or packaging info, because I don't understand anything in it and it is not interesting for me as well), but I can't do that. Every time I use or edit data on any of OFF resources I want to scream, because I hate editing in them, because it is too hard and annoying. In addition, the whole project's guidelines and best practices are unclear, are different from place to place and it is hard to find them at the same time, so I just use my logic, which can and will be unnacurate sometimes, but I'm not ready to waste tons of my time only to find the relevant part of the unstructured documentaion. Storing of brands, shops, translations etc is separate hell, because I can't be sure, I choose right entities, because businesses can have same or similar names and different translations of the same entities are stored as separate entities always, which is not right. Data loading is extremely slow, especially for photos and they are in low resolution. foodfacts.org/products works much faster so some services that based on your data works better than all your native services and solutions. That's fucking brilliant. I don't even know, how can I comment this. After month of contribution in your project, I leave it. Sorry, but I don't have enough patience for ignoring that to make just basic edits I need to waste 10-20 minutes of my time only because I need to wait after every edit it will be saved and stored on your side. So this is my farewell present to you. Good luck you with this project. Really hope you will succeeded to make it stable and comfortabl
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Daniel
you are a great project and deserve a bit of love from the community!! was wondering have you published anything about how your infrastructure works? perhaps a blog post or similar. I'm very curious to know (technically) how it works, if possible to disclose such informations. thanks, keep it up!
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Peter
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€20
Love your app and your important work! I also love servers so happy to help keep one going! :-)
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Toby
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€200
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Véronique
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€31.59
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Maxime LEBLED
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€50
Merci pour votre travail
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Fanny Jacob
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Maksim
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€10.71/M
Thank you, guys, for your great work! It is a pleasure to see and use such a marvelous independent project!
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Pablo
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€10.71
Sois los mejores, me ayudasteis muchísimo a mejorar mi dieta!
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Levelut
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€100
JM
Jordan M
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€10.71
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Tim
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€10.71
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Helge Hobusch
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€100
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Alex
donated
$52.59
I worked on the old Open Food Facts iOS app (hi Pierre!) and every day I use OFF via an app called "Waistline" for Android. I couldn't live without OFF.
RG
Roland Geider
donated
€104.67
MR
Marc Rybicki
donated
€200
Vielen Dank an OpenFoodFacts für die Daten und den Support!!