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DDEV powers local development for thousands of developers worldwide.

From solo freelancers to enterprise teams, DDEV makes local web development reliable and FAST. With Docker-based environments that "just work," we've helped eliminate the countless hours lost to environment setup and configuration headaches.

Our Impact

  • 🚀 17,000 Developer Projects every week
  • 🌍 Active community spanning WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, Magento, and more
  • 📚 Comprehensive documentation and tutorials loved by beginners and experts
  • 🛠️ 8+ years of continuous development and community support

About Randy Fay, Project Lead

Randy has been stewarding DDEV's development for over 8 years, working alongside an incredible community of contributors. Through conferences, workshops, and direct community support, Randy ensures DDEV remains accessible to developers at every skill level while pushing the boundaries of what local development can be.

About Maintainer Stas Zhuk

Stas is a core maintainer of DDEV and creator/maintainer of numerous DDEV add-ons. Based in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, he became an official full-time DDEV maintainer in October 2023 after contributing to the project since 2021. With expertise in Laravel, PHP, and DevOps tools, he has contributed over 500 commits, bugfixes, and features to DDEV, including major improvements like enhanced composer commands, environment file support, and add-on ecosystem development. His deep technical knowledge and passion for innovation make him essential to DDEV's continued growth and sustainability.

How Your Sponsorship Makes a Difference

Every contribution directly funds:

  • Feature Development - New integrations, performance improvements, and cutting-edge capabilities
  • Community Support - Documentation, tutorials, and helping developers solve complex problems
  • Infrastructure - Testing environments, CI/CD, and the systems that keep DDEV reliable
  • Upstream Contributions - Supporting the Docker, PHP, and open-source projects we depend on

Join Our Community of Supporters

Your sponsorship isn't just funding—it's joining a movement to make local development better for everyone. Together, we're building tools that give developers more time to focus on what they love: creating amazing web experiences.

Ready to support the future of local web development? Do it here!

Alternate Funding Options

We have loads of funding methods to make it easy for you and your organization. Please email support (at) ddev.com for any of the following:

  • Invoices for your organization.
  • Custom support contracts or recurring invoices.
  • Payment via ACH, SWIFT/IBAN, wise.com
  • PayPal
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Our primary goals are to make it possible for Maintainers @stasadev and @rfay to work full time on DDEV and not have to take on additional work. You can read all about this goal in https://ddev.com/blog/lets-fund-stas-maintainer/ The goal here is a goal from all sources, not just from GitHub Sponsors. You can see the complete funding situation from all sources at https://github.com/ddev/sponsorship-data/blob/main/data/all-sponsorships.json

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    Docker-based local PHP+Node.js web development environments

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DDEV needs a full-time co-maintainer to ensure its long-term sustainability. Read more in the DDEV Advisory Group meeting minutes. Perhaps your organization would like to fund a co-maintainer, or perhaps you'd just like to pay an employee of your organization to become a co-maintainer.