---
title: "Developers Spent 1.3 Billion Minutes Using freeCodeCamp in 2020, and Other Year-end Facts"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/developers-spent-1-3-billion-minutes-using-freecodecamp-in-2020-and-other-year-end-facts-f4vuvcxvs
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/freecodecamp-2020/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2020-12-18T07:24:07.199Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 11
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Developers Spent 1.3 Billion Minutes Using freeCodeCamp in 2020, and Other Year-end Facts

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 9 min read · 11 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

This is a quick update on the state of the freeCodeCamp community heading into 2021. First, some metrics: In 2020 freeCodeCamp's entire operating budget was only $498,521.With that humble budget, our nonprofit was able to deliver more than 1.3 BILLION minutes of instruction - the equivalent of

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@valkongr** · 1 upvotes

> Great but this is a sign of an incoming saturation.

**@antheking** · 1 upvotes

> never tried freecodecamp but after reading this post i think i will try it

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> "I've met individual developers who work at FAANG companies and earn more than $498K per year just from doing their jobs. And we're running an entire global nonprofit with that."
>
>
> There, he said that. Just one more reason to love and donate to FCC. 🔥

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