Partner with Astro

Let’s improve the web, together!

Trusted by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Cloudflare, and more, Astro is the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce.

Sponsorship

The easiest way to partner with Astro is to become a sponsor! Your financial contributions support the community behind the open source project for ongoing maintenance and development.

We recognize some levels of sponsorship with a logo and/or link on Astro sites such as our marketing homepage, GitHub README, and docs website. We are always happy to work directly with larger sponsors ($2000+ per month) to create a custom sponsorship package.

About Astro

Community maintained

Thanks to our partners and sponsorships, we have been able to disperse more than $500,000 in open source sponsorships to Astro’s community contributors, which include more than half of Astro’s core maintainers.

Sponsorships have paid for community maintainers to lead Astro’s documentation efforts and manage translations across 14 languages, develop Starlight, add essential features such as font optimization and type-safe environment variables, publish our monthly newsletter, and so much more!

Learn more about how Astro’s open source funding model works, and all of the parts of the project that depend on it!

How to partner with Astro

Astro maintains relationships with companies, individuals, content creators, and other open source projects. There are limited opportunities to become a “Featured Partner” in some areas of the project.

Reach out to partner@astro.build to explore activities such as:

• Co-marketing
• Building or funding feature development
• Supporting Starlight
• Becoming an Agency Partner
• Sponsoring a featured theme
• Providing a technical case study
• Inviting us on podcasts or live streams
• Creating video content
• Submitting third-party guides to our docs site
• Funding community events
• Advertising in our newsletter
• Listing special items in our swag shop

Co-marketing

We can partner to amplify each others’ message, content, or resources to the benefit of both of our communities.

If you create or build something with or featuring Astro, we’re happy to share it! This could take the form of a social media post or boost, a blog post announcing our joint feature, or placement in our newsletter.

For larger coordinated efforts, reach out to us to discuss a potential partnership with a financial arrangement.

Development

Astro stays lightweight, environmentally friendly, and blazingly fast thanks to a focused set of core features with minimal dependencies. That’s why Astro’s integration ecosystem is so powerful! Astro integrations extend basic functionality on an opt-in basis.

Creating an Astro integration for your product or service is a great way to make it easy for people to use you in their Astro project, and grows the entire ecosystem!

Don’t have the time or expertise to build an Astro integration for your company or product? You can partner with us to directly fund development of an integration. This allows Astro to prioritize the functionality you need, and create a plug-and-play way for Astro projects to use your service.

Is Astro missing a core feature that would allow you to use or migrate to it? As an open-source project, we welcome community contributors! Check out our public roadmap and submit a proposal for missing features that you’d like to see added. If accepted, you are welcome to build it yourself with support and oversight of a core maintainer.

We also work with partners who are able to fund the development of these core features, so get in touch!

Starlight

Starlight is an entirely community-maintained solution for lightweight, performant, accessible, eco-friendly documentation with a healthy ecosystem of plugins and themes. Used by companies like Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, Starlight is a perfect docs-as-code solution for projects of any size.

Supporting Starlight’s maintenance and development is a great way to contribute to high-quality, low-footprint documentation that is perfect for developer docs. With additional integrations, Starlight can power your entire web presence, including marketing pages and a blog!

Using Starlight for your docs? Consider supporting its ongoing maintenance and development through an Open Collective sponsorship, or reach out to us for additional partnership opportunities.

Agency partners

The Astro Agency Partner program features a hand-picked group of agencies from around the world, who have demonstrated a track record in building high-quality Astro sites.

If you are an agency building with Astro, we want your quality work to be discoverable by potential clients, and also to give you a direct line to the core team of Astro maintainers.

Theme sponsors

The Astro Theme Catalogue is often the first stop for visitors looking to get up and running with a pre-made Astro site quickly. Our catalogue is the largest collection of Astro themes and templates, containing over 500 free and paid options.

If you are building paid themes for Astro, you can donate to Astro’s Open Collective as a Theme Sponsor, and designate one or more of your themes to be listed on our main themes page before visitors enter the full site of listings.

Technical case studies

We’d love to interview companies that have used Astro for a unique or complex use case in production. Case studies inspire confidence in using Astro and showcase your organization as an Astro adopter.

Video content, podcasts, and live streams

Have an idea for compelling Astro content? Let’s get together to talk about Astro or a related topic! We can help coordinate booking different members of the core team as guests for your show.

Third-party guides

Astro is proud of its commitment to documentation, and developers love our docs! Developers rely heavily on high-quality documentation and written resources when they build for the web. When they don’t get it, they move on and choose something else.

Astro accepts third-party guides for installing, configuring, and integrating services with Astro (e.g. content management systems, deploy hosts, storage solutions) on a case-by-case basis. If accepted, our docs team will work with you to ensure a high quality, polished product up to the standard of our own documentation. These guides let Astro users know that your product or service can be used with Astro, and shows them exactly how to get started!

Please be advised that these documents can require extensive writing, testing, and editing to produce content that meets our documentation standards. Therefore, we may not always have the available resources to review and accept submissions. To help us include yours, you can directly fund our docs team to work with you on guides about using your product or service with Astro.

Community Events

Astro is nothing without the community behind it! We would love to better support events, meetup groups, conferences, and the people who organize and represent Astro at them.

We also occasionally plan official in-person events ourselves, such as Astro Together and launch events like the Astro Solstice Festival.

Sponsorship can help send Astro community maintainers to speak at conferences, fund a booth or swag items for attendees, or make an entire event possible!

Newsletter Advertising

Astro’s newsletter “The Astro Post” reaches thousands of people each month with a roundup of the latest news, releases, and community showcase items. This is a completely community-funded initiative that keeps people informed and provides the latest tips and tools to help people get the most out of Astro.

Astro’s newsletter is delivered directly to subscribers’ inboxes with a consistent 55-65% open rate, and is permanently available in a web archive. Each month, we suggest articles, videos, and developer tools related to working with Astro. There are opportunities to feature your content, include an advertisement, or sponsor the month’s newsletter or full monthly blog post so that our audience stays educated and informed.

Sponsored Swag

Astro’s official swag shop AstroMart is a community initiative to provide our community with opportunities to show off their Astro pride! All shop maintenance, from product design to order fulfillment, is supported by open source funds, and all profits are reinvested in the project.

We regularly offer special product lines for seasonal events or other promotions. Your sponsorship can help support the design of new products and the maintenance of the store itself. Consider sponsoring a special item! Co-branded merch? Providing a special discount? Let us know if you are interested in getting Astro swag into people’s hands!