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I'd honestly like to hear someone explain to me why this is worth even $1. It's worth at least $5 or even $10 dollars to me. That's effectively, "I'll buy you

I'd honestly like to hear someone explain to me why this is worth even $1. It's worth at least $5 or even $10 dollars to me. That's effectively, "I'll buy you guys a pizza." (Or, here in NYC, a couple or three slices of pizza. But it's good pizza, damn it.) I'm not especially worried about whether or not this project conquers the world, or beats Facebook (which I could care less about one way or the other). The motivation here is just some interesting people with a lot of passion doing something they care about. Giving them a little money is like buying a beer for someone in a bar you just met who is telling a great story. It's not really goal oriented, just sociable. (And that's the difference between this and flushing money down the toilet.) The larger result relies on the magic of lots and lots of individually small donations. A small amount of money like this doesn't hurt me at all, but a whole big lot of donations like this add up to $50,000 in a hurry apparently.

jacquesm 16y ago
Check out the breakdown: 325 in the $5 to $10 range 274 $10 - $25 104 $50 - $100 76 $100 to $350 8 $350 to $1000 3 $1000 to $2000 1 $2000 and up That's certainly a lot of people buying them a pizza, but there is also a significant number of people buying them 10 DVDs or a four course meal for two, and even a few are buying them a months rent.
- telemachos 16y ago
  Yup, but note that the larger donations come with larger "rewards" later. Everyone above $350 gets a free year from the future subscription service. The $2000 and up donator gets a computer down the line. I wonder if the larger donations move down (up?) the continuum from encouragement towards investment.
  - puredemo 16y ago
    Wait, the site is going to be subscription? I thought this was supposed to compete with Facebook. Almost everyone is on Facebook because it's free.
    - Kadrith 16y ago
      They will release code for anyone to host their own site, but provide a subscription service for people that do not want to manage the code. I'd imagine some of the sites will be free, but they may not have all of the features possible. For example a company may want to use the subscription service for internal use but not want to host it.

jacquesm 16y ago

Check out the breakdown: 325 in the $5 to $10 range 274 $10 - $25 104 $50 - $100 76 $100 to $350 8 $350 to $1000 3 $1000 to $2000 1 $2000 and up That's certainly a lot of people buying them a pizza, but there is also a significant number of people buying them 10 DVDs or a four course meal for two, and even a few are buying them a months rent.

telemachos 16y ago
Yup, but note that the larger donations come with larger "rewards" later. Everyone above $350 gets a free year from the future subscription service. The $2000 and up donator gets a computer down the line. I wonder if the larger donations move down (up?) the continuum from encouragement towards investment.
- puredemo 16y ago
  Wait, the site is going to be subscription? I thought this was supposed to compete with Facebook. Almost everyone is on Facebook because it's free.
  - Kadrith 16y ago
    They will release code for anyone to host their own site, but provide a subscription service for people that do not want to manage the code. I'd imagine some of the sites will be free, but they may not have all of the features possible. For example a company may want to use the subscription service for internal use but not want to host it.