Public badges are free. If you want to help

shieldcn renders README badges, charts, headers, and sponsor walls as real shadcn/ui components, served from public endpoints. The public badge service is free, and that part isn't changing.

For individuals, sponsoring is the easy way to support the project. Maintainers who want saved READMEs, mass migration, AI, and a managed brand can go a step further with Plus — but shieldcn still costs real time to build and keep running, and every bit of support tells me that time is worth spending. It's what lets me treat this like a real project instead of something I poke at on weekends.

Any amount genuinely helps. And if money isn't your thing, starring the repo or sending someone a badge you liked works just as well.