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This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of: - I have a set amount of mo
by worble 8y ago
This seems really great, I was thinking of doing something like this recently as well, although I was thinking more along lines of:
- I have a set amount of money I wish to give each month (say £200)
- Given I have setup x amount of people I wish to donate to, the system will automatically spread my money evenly amongst the creators, or using a given weighting provided
- I'll be able to add any new creators to this list and not have to recalculate the amount given to each one, given I'm still putting the same amount of money into my "donation pot"
Looking at their current system it seems to still follow the old paradigm of "set up a creator and set the amount for each of them individually", I hope that they could support something more like the above some day. Personally, the mental burden of having to continually reevaluate my monthly spend is probably the biggest burden when considering donating to someone new, which only gets larger as your donation list gets larger, so having the a system offload this I think would be a great way to encourage more donating.
- PaulRobinson 8y agoI hate to be the blockchain guy, but this sounds like something you could look at Ethereum or similar to provide. I'd consider using crypto if this use case existed.
- bandedetrappees 8y agoThis is exactly what the Basic Attention Token, linked to the Brave browser is supposed to do. You can even spread the donations based on the time spent on each website/videos. You should check it out.
- justinclift 8y agoSeems super niche. eg only works for things which are primarily a website or video
- class4behavior 8y agoI dunno. This may help donators manage their money better but receivers would be discouraged from using that platform since such a system would dissuade sponsors from focusing on a few projects and providing a stable income to projects.
- sadris 8y agoFlattr did this. It may still. It got bought a few years ago.
- ValentineC 8y agoThis sounds like Flattr: https://flattr.com https://flattr.com
- mcherm 8y agoThen you should take a look at Flattr <https://flattr.com/> https://flattr.com/>. They are older than Patreon (although they never got the same level of widespread use as Patreon) and they operate in exactly the manner you describe.
- worble 8y agoHuh, can't believe I hadn't seen this before. I suppose the main problem with all of these systems is that the creator ultimately has to sign up to them in first place, and unfortunately all these smaller sites just don't have the people I want to donate to on them. There's no quick and easy answer to that unfortunately, outside of trying to federate some kind of standard for all donations that clients could plug into, and we all know how that goes[0] [0]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png