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Have you tried Patreon? I had the same experience with a donation button. But a Patreon button magically gave us steady money to support infrastructure.

kbenson 6y ago
Yeah, I'm a patron of multiple people, from Authors to people running a website providing info on a game, that are making $10k-$20k a month in Patreon from those projects through $5-$10 monthly payments. It's amazing how much money you can make, but I think you really do have to offer something to get people to bite.
zepearl 6y ago
Yeah, as a (small/tiny) donator for 3 projects so far I personally liked Patreon - neat, simple, it works. There are 3 other projects to which I'd like as well to donate something but they're all using different services ( https://donorbox.org https://donorbox.org , https://ko-fi.com https://ko-fi.com , https://liberapay.com https://liberapay.com ) => I don't want to lose control over my donations and creating accounts there as well would have that effect on me. Therefore, I think that somebody that would like to receive donations should try make multiple options available - hoping for the opposite (that whoever donates will use the specific service that you chose) won't work.
- selcuka 6y ago
  What we need now is a donation service aggregator. Any donations for this idea?
  - ryantgtg 6y ago
    Take my dollar! Seems like linktr.ee does a good job of aggregating links. So, the "donate" link could link to that, which then displays a bunch of options. However, I believe that a familiar icon - like the patreon icon - helps people make decisions.
    - selcuka 6y ago
      My idea is the other way around, it does not require the content providers to change the way they want to get paid. I was thinking of an aggregator for the donator, i.e. something that aggregates your multiple accounts on multiple donation services.

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Have you tried Patreon? I had the same experience with a donation button. But a Patreon button magically gave us steady money to support infrastructure.

by ryantgtg 6y ago

kbenson 6y ago
Yeah, I'm a patron of multiple people, from Authors to people running a website providing info on a game, that are making $10k-$20k a month in Patreon from those projects through $5-$10 monthly payments. It's amazing how much money you can make, but I think you really do have to offer something to get people to bite.
zepearl 6y ago
Yeah, as a (small/tiny) donator for 3 projects so far I personally liked Patreon - neat, simple, it works. There are 3 other projects to which I'd like as well to donate something but they're all using different services ( https://donorbox.org https://donorbox.org , https://ko-fi.com https://ko-fi.com , https://liberapay.com https://liberapay.com ) => I don't want to lose control over my donations and creating accounts there as well would have that effect on me. Therefore, I think that somebody that would like to receive donations should try make multiple options available - hoping for the opposite (that whoever donates will use the specific service that you chose) won't work.
- selcuka 6y ago
  What we need now is a donation service aggregator. Any donations for this idea?
  - ryantgtg 6y ago
    Take my dollar! Seems like linktr.ee does a good job of aggregating links. So, the "donate" link could link to that, which then displays a bunch of options. However, I believe that a familiar icon - like the patreon icon - helps people make decisions.
    - selcuka 6y ago
      My idea is the other way around, it does not require the content providers to change the way they want to get paid. I was thinking of an aggregator for the donator, i.e. something that aggregates your multiple accounts on multiple donation services.