What about Patreon or Blendle? These are at least two potential solutions right now which have proven effective in similar specific circumstances (though they m

What about Patreon or Blendle? These are at least two potential solutions right now which have proven effective in similar specific circumstances (though they may not solve the whole problem). https://patreon.com https://patreon.com gives you continuous paying supporters without the Kickstarter cycle (ideally it would be easy for a company to count supporting open source via patreon or equivalents in a way that's nice for accounting/taxes). https://blendle.nl https://blendle.nl enables micropayments for articles, with the caveat that they are always refundable if you don't like them. More context: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/a-money-back-guarantee-how-blendle-hopes-to-convince-dutch-news-readers-to-pay-by-the-article/ http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/a-money-back-guarantee-how-...