Comment by jandrese
12 hours ago
Honestly he should open a Patreon. There are loads of people that would subscribe to Sudo for $2/month or $5/month.
12 hours ago
Honestly he should open a Patreon. There are loads of people that would subscribe to Sudo for $2/month or $5/month.
wouldn't https://github.com/sponsors/sudo-project achieve the same thing in this case?
That's great, I wish he had mentioned it.
True, but it sounds like he's more looking for "a" sponsor, not crowdfunding which he already has tried.
That might be why he hasn't mentioned it.
The problem is if I was going to do that with the open source projects I use, it is more like a penny a month * 1000 projects.
$.01/user/month would be quite a bit here
Subtract the standard ~3 cent transaction fee and he’d end up owing money instead. That seems to always be the catch with micropayment ideas.
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payment processors: "how about no"
Why? If every person participating is giving $10-$20 per month to tens or hundreds of projects and then once distributed, this equates to $x00 or $x000/project/month, why would the payment processors mind. Of course, it's all in theory.
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This is why I feel like a missing piece of Patreon/Kofi/whatever is the ability to say "Here's $x; divide it automagically amongst the creators I'm currently following"
Sure, I think a lot of those donations would amount to a few pennies or so at once, but I feel like a lot more people would be willing to support creators if they didn't have to constantly choose which to support.
I would love it if something like Github would accept donations from a repo and parcel it out to the repo's dependencies somehow. It would sadly make Github even stickier, but it would be a great feature.
I would kick him $20. Anyone know how?
They are using github sponsors and have had some level of contributions.
https://github.com/sponsors/sudo-project