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Fuel the Dream

A fundraising site and a real nonprofit built in a morning so my son's baseball team can get to Cooperstown, with live Zeffy totals and a donate button that fails closed.

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year: 2026
check-ins: 1

Build log

Check-ins written while building, most recent first.

Fuel the DreamFuel the Dream: getting Austin's team to CooperstownAustin's travel team is going to Cooperstown in June 2027, and getting twelve boys to upstate New York costs real money. So we set up a nonprofit, Nicolette wrote the words, and I built the website in a morning, including the moment the fundraising meter went from a made-up $8,750 to an honest $0.16 Sept

Visit fuelthedream.orgmore check-ins land as the build progresses