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Would it be possible for a nonprofit to step in and fulfill the role Patreon plays? A company like Patreon seeems completely tangential to “endless growth” unle
by ausbah 8y ago
Would it be possible for a nonprofit to step in and fulfill the role Patreon plays? A company like Patreon seeems completely tangential to “endless growth” unless they’re expanding for purely infrastructure reasons..
- dbrgn 8y agoThere's https://liberapay.com/ https://liberapay.com/. Not sure how well it works though.
- skinnyasianboi 8y agoThanks, I just made an account and will keep an eye on it. Looks small but great and it's sponsored by my favorite password manager "Bitwarden".
- andypants 8y agoFrom a donor point of view, it works differently from patreon and IMO far inferior. On patreon, you sign up to a creator for a fixed amount every month. Once you've subscribed, it's like any other online subscription - every month, your card is automatically charged. On liberapay, you have to manually fund your account in advance. If your account runs out of money, you have to log back in and top it up again.
- Changaco 8y agoSome people dislike automatic charges, while others don't want to be bothered with renewals, so it's best to support both. For historical reasons related to payment processor limitations Liberapay was launched with only manual renewals, but we're working on implementing automatic charges now. See our recent blog post “The third year of Liberapay” for more details: https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapay-636fbe7d95a8 https://medium.com/liberapay-blog/the-third-year-of-liberapa...
- weinzierl 8y agoThere is Drip which belongs to Kickstarter which is a Public-benefit corporation. They generated a lot of buzz about a year ago but I've never heard of them since then - not sure if they are going anywhere.