Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 17 Jul 2026, 3 months before this check.
No releases published on GitHub; the code date above is the one to trust.
Public since March 2018, a little over 8 years.
236 stars and 94 forks.
0 commits and 0 new issues in the last 90 days.
39 contributors. No pull requests merged in 90 days; changes go in directly.
A security policy says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub.
In simple English
This project is a website system for charities and nonprofit groups to collect donations and run crowdfunding campaigns. You can host donation forms, track past payments, and manage events on your own server. Setting it up takes technical skill and a Linux server with database software. It is free to download, but you pay for your own server hosting and credit card processing fees.
What it is
Houdini is a self-hosted Ruby on Rails web application designed for non-governmental organisations to handle fundraising infrastructure. It provides dashboards for payment history, recurring donation management, and supporter relationship management.
What it is good for
It fits small or mid-sized charities that want to own their donor data and avoid paying high percentage fees to commercial fundraising platforms.
- Complete system for crowdfunding and recurring donations.
- Includes a dashboard for tracking donor history and payouts.
- Allows you to keep all your organisation data on your own server.
- Complex setup process requiring Node.js, Ruby, PostgreSQL, and Yarn.
- Heavy development status with a mix of legacy code and new React components.
- Requires manual configuration of environment variables and payment gateway keys.
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git clone https://github.com/HoudiniProject/houdini cd houdini git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv echo 'eval "(~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init - bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build rbenv install 3.0.7 bin/setup