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I would like to hijacked this post to also mention Liberapay (https://liberapay.com https://liberapay.com) which is a fork of GitTip and ran by one of the origi

I would like to hijacked this post to also mention Liberapay (https://liberapay.com https://liberapay.com) which is a fork of GitTip and ran by one of the original devs. I like it because it is a small, independent competitor to Patreon. It seems more suited to things that are not "art" or "internet celebrity", e.g. open source projects or political initiatives. It is like GitTip before the name change to Gratipay in that you don't need concrete rewards and it also funds individuals. (IIRC Gratipay introduced those changes to get around "money transferrer" laws that didn't allow them to send money no-strings-attached to individuals. Liberapay gets around this by being in EU jurisdiction). It's still pretty small, but looks cool, and I'd love to see it succeed.

smichel17 9y ago
If I might hijack this comment, I'd like to mention Snowdrift.coop as well, which is targeted at free/libre/open works. ("Disclaimer": I am a member of our fully volunteer team.) Snowdrift.coop functions in a similar no-strings-attached style to Liberapay, but uses a unique donation model, called Crowdmatching, where the amount of the monthly donation is based on the number of patrons. The platform itself will be funded as a project on its own site (rather than taking a cut of donations), and will be run as a non-profit cooperative (getting governance set up is one of our top priorities right now, alongside a public launch; if anyone has experience/expertise and would like to help with this, please reach out). The best introduction, although visually outdated, is probably the intro page on our wiki: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/ https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/ I wish I had time to stick around and chat, but it's a busy time in my semester right now; there's a wealth of adfitional information on the wiki and there's usually people around in irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode / matrix.org; the rooms are bridged).
- hsod 9y ago
  Your wiki link is giving me this error, FYI: Happstack 7.4.6.1 Something went wrong here Internal server error Everything has stopped The error was "NotFound"
  - quadrangle 9y ago
    The link given above was wrong. There's no final slash. It's just: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro Anyway, it would be better to get a not so bad not-found page. Also, better intro stuff for Snowdrift.coop is planned to be published soon.
- smichel17 9y ago
  Working link: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro I typed it from memory and forgot it should not have a trailing /, unfortunately it's too late to edit the post.
dandare 9y ago
I am looking for a Patreon-like service where patrons could pledge money to individual pieces of content. Imagine that I create and maintain a public transport map for each city in the world and I want to let locals to pledge to their local city map. Something like that. Ideally with a donation counter that I could embed into each individual map. Of course, there are thousands of cities so I will need an automated way (API) to create individual wallets. Does such service exist?
- quadrangle 9y ago
  No such service exists. You might find certain types of tipping platforms or tools to be the closest. Here's a summary of the whole market: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...
mariushn 9y ago
Nice! Would be interesting to have sites accept payments from librapay accounts, so it can be used as an alternative to paypal too (without the fees!)

smichel17 9y ago

If I might hijack this comment, I'd like to mention Snowdrift.coop as well, which is targeted at free/libre/open works. ("Disclaimer": I am a member of our fully volunteer team.) Snowdrift.coop functions in a similar no-strings-attached style to Liberapay, but uses a unique donation model, called Crowdmatching, where the amount of the monthly donation is based on the number of patrons. The platform itself will be funded as a project on its own site (rather than taking a cut of donations), and will be run as a non-profit cooperative (getting governance set up is one of our top priorities right now, alongside a public launch; if anyone has experience/expertise and would like to help with this, please reach out). The best introduction, although visually outdated, is probably the intro page on our wiki: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/ https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro/ I wish I had time to stick around and chat, but it's a busy time in my semester right now; there's a wealth of adfitional information on the wiki and there's usually people around in irc/matrix (#snowdrift on freenode / matrix.org; the rooms are bridged).

hsod 9y ago
Your wiki link is giving me this error, FYI: Happstack 7.4.6.1 Something went wrong here Internal server error Everything has stopped The error was "NotFound"
- quadrangle 9y ago
  The link given above was wrong. There's no final slash. It's just: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro Anyway, it would be better to get a not so bad not-found page. Also, better intro stuff for Snowdrift.coop is planned to be published soon.
smichel17 9y ago
Working link: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/intro I typed it from memory and forgot it should not have a trailing /, unfortunately it's too late to edit the post.

dandare 9y ago

I am looking for a Patreon-like service where patrons could pledge money to individual pieces of content. Imagine that I create and maintain a public transport map for each city in the world and I want to let locals to pledge to their local city map. Something like that. Ideally with a donation counter that I could embed into each individual map. Of course, there are thousands of cities so I will need an automated way (API) to create individual wallets. Does such service exist?

quadrangle 9y ago
No such service exists. You might find certain types of tipping platforms or tools to be the closest. Here's a summary of the whole market: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...

mariushn 9y ago

Nice! Would be interesting to have sites accept payments from librapay accounts, so it can be used as an alternative to paypal too (without the fees!)