Keep the Wheels Spinning

Where the Money Actually Goes

Wheel Spin Pro is not a company. There are no salaries, no office and no marketing budget — but there is a developer, and the site is still being built. Donations pay for the work first, and for the running costs that keep it reachable:

• The work itself. This is the big one. Every picker here was designed, built, tested and fixed by one person. Donations buy the hours that go into the next tool, the reported bug, the accessibility pass, and the fairness receipt that now sits behind almost every spin — instead of that work having to fit into whatever evenings are left over.
• Hosting and bandwidth. The largest running cost. Every picker ships its own artwork and its own engine, so the site is heavier to serve than a blog.
• The domain and certificate. Small, annual, unavoidable.
• Backups and monitoring, so an outage is noticed and a mistake can be rolled back.

What it is being spent on next

No roadmap survives contact with a bug report, so this is a direction rather than a promise. The standing priorities are: a provably-fair receipt on every single picker rather than almost all of them; making shared and embedded wheels carry every setting the original had; and continuing to work through the picker list so each one is as considered as the classic wheel. Reported bugs jump ahead of all of it.

What it does not go to

No trackers are sold, no email list is rented, and no user data is monetised in any way. Wheel entries stay on your device unless you explicitly save or share them. Donating does not buy influence over a draw either — results are generated in your browser with the Web Crypto API, and nobody, including the person who built it, can nudge one.

Free Ways to Help That Matter Just as Much

Most people who use this site will never donate, and that is entirely fine — it is free on purpose. If you want to help without spending anything:

• Report a bug. Especially anything that looks unfair. A reproducible fairness bug goes to the top of the queue ahead of every feature.
• Tell someone. A teacher who spends five minutes picking names, a streamer running a giveaway, an organiser drawing raffle tickets — that is who this was built for.
• Link to it. If you write about classroom tools, giveaways or decision-making, a link genuinely helps people find the site.
• Suggest a picker. A good number of the tools here exist because somebody asked for them.

Before You Donate

• It is a gift, not a purchase. Nothing on the site is locked, and donating unlocks nothing — every tool already works for everyone.
• No subscription. These are one-off contributions; nothing recurring is set up and nothing bills you again.
• Payments are handled by the provider, not by this site. Card and wallet details are never seen or stored here.
• Crypto is irreversible. If you send a coin donation, check the address and the network carefully — a mistake cannot be undone by anyone.
• Changed your mind? Email the contact address and a conventional payment will be returned, no questions asked.

Donations are personal contributions to an independent project, not a business transaction, so no VAT invoice or receipt for accounting purposes is issued.