Where Things Stand
If you've arrived here from the banner on the main Toolbox page, thank you for taking a moment to read this. What follows is an honest account of where things are, what I've done to try to change them, and what I'm considering if they don't.
I'll be direct with you, because that's how I've always tried to operate within the Pool Funding community, and this moment doesn't call for anything different.
Someone stepped up
During a recent Crypto Cove call, a member did something that hadn't happened before in the entire history of this sustainability effort. She said publicly, in front of the community that she didn't understand why others hadn't stepped up. That she finds the Toolbox essential to the project as a whole. And then she committed to sponsoring it through the marketplace at $10 a month.
If one person can see it clearly enough to act, others can too. This section exists because social proof matters, and because that moment deserves to be acknowledged rather than quietly absorbed and forgotten.
Thank you. You know who you are.
What I built, and why I built it
Hunter's Toolbox started in June of last year as a single tool: a token importer I built for the executive team because watching people struggle through a tedious manual process during onboarding felt like a problem I could actually fix. I built it quietly, without being asked, and shared it with a handful of people I trusted.
It spread on its own from there. People shared it. More people started using it. Eventually I made it "official" because the community had already found it. And by then, what had started as one widget on a Blogspot sidebar had grown into something worth giving a proper home.
I moved it to GitHub Pages, rebuilt it from scratch, and kept adding. The RPC switcher came next, battle tested during a real network outage that left members unable to transact. Then the approval scanner, the calculator, the charts, the swap shortcuts, the mobile fallbacks. The weekly Co-Owner/Crypto Cove calls. The guides. All of it built independently, on my own time, out of a genuine belief that this community deserves tools built with real care.
What I've tried
This is not the first time I've raised this issue. I've made the case for sustainability in every way I could think of, over an extended period of time. Here is what that has actually looked like:
Present since early in the Toolbox's life, with written copy explaining the sustainability situation directly. They are still there.
Routine posts detailing changes, new features, and the ongoing investment of time required to keep everything working and improving.
Hosted every week over Zoom, covering community updates, how to use the tools, what has changed, and on multiple occasions the sustainability issue directly. I walked the community through real world examples of what happens when free infrastructure goes unsupported.
Paid one-on-one support made available: program analysis and wallet security reviews, as another way for the community to support the work while getting something specific in return.
A dedicated page on the Toolbox site containing 18 sections of curated links and resources across the crypto and Web3 space, built and maintained alongside everything else, with some affiliate links to help offset costs.
View the Crypto Directory →A dedicated page telling the full origin of the Toolbox: Where it came from, how it grew, and what it means to me, so that the people using it every day could understand the human story behind it.
View the Story Page →A structured series of posts in the Wall of Joy Telegram making the case through analogy, lighthouses, roads, libraries, gardens, bridges, for why free community infrastructure needs more than appreciation to survive. Fourteen posts across three sets, written carefully and spaced deliberately.
Individual sponsorship listings on the MyJoy Marketplace breaking the infrastructure costs into specific, reachable monthly asks, as well as a Cornerstone Sponsorship for anyone wanting to cover everything at once.
Fund the Toolbox DomainFund the Toolbox VPS
Fund the Private RPC Node
Fund the Community Zoom License
Become a Cornerstone Sponsor
I've done all of this because I believe the community deserves every opportunity to respond before anything changes. I still believe that. But beyond the recent $10 monthly commitment, which is genuinely appreciated and a meaningful start, the financial response to everything above has been $0.
I'm not telling you that to shame anyone, and not out of bitterness. I'm telling you because you deserve to know the full picture.
Where things actually stand
The Toolbox works. Right now, today, everything on it functions as it should. The tools are there, the calls have been running, the guides exist. None of that has changed yet.
What has changed is my confidence that I can continue investing in it at the current level without any indication that the community values it enough to contribute something back. Two hundred hours of labor. Weeks of campaign posts. Multiple calls making the case directly. A full suite of marketplace listings. A dedicated sustainability page documenting everything in detail.
At some point, continuing to pour effort into something that the community accepts without reciprocation stops being generosity and starts being something I owe to myself to examine honestly.
What may happen next
I want to be careful here, because I am not writing this to be dramatic or to issue ultimatums. What I am doing is being honest about where a sustained lack of response leads. Because I think you deserve that honesty now, while there is still time to change the outcome.
The Toolbox in its current form requires ongoing time and attention to remain what it is. That time has a cost. If the community continues to consume the tools without contributing to their sustainability, I will eventually reach a point where I have to make decisions about what I can continue to justify.
I don't want to be the next left-pad: A maintainer who disappears one day and leaves the community scrambling. I have been explicit about the risk precisely because I want to avoid that outcome. A controlled, communicated change is better than a sudden one. But a controlled change may still be coming if nothing shifts.
If you have been meaning to do something and haven't yet, now is a good time. Not because of what might happen, but because the tools are worth supporting, and because the window where that support makes the most difference is open right now.
What you can do right now
If this page has landed with you and you want to do something, here is exactly where to go. I've made it as direct as I can. No hunting around, no ambiguity about where contributions end up.
If financial contribution isn't possible right now, sharing this page or the Toolbox with someone who would benefit from it is also a genuine act of support. The community grows when people who care about it bring others in.