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> At Gratipay, we believe that companies want to pay for open source, and will pay for open source if it’s easy enough—bureaucratically, technically, and social

> At Gratipay, we believe that companies want to pay for open source, and will pay for open source if it’s easy enough—bureaucratically, technically, and socially. I think this is the right insight, but clicking around the links on their website I don't think they were executing on that insight particularly well. This looks more like it was a platform for individuals to make recurring donations than for companies to support the tools they use.

whit537 5y ago
> I don't think they were executing on that insight particularly well. Probably why they don't exist anymore.
mattbk1 5y ago
There was a lot of pivoting going on near the end, unfortunately. The "companies pay" version of the site wasn't around for very long.
- whit537 5y ago
  Thrashing, one might even call it. :)
  - mattbk1 5y ago
    Glad to see you're still around!
    - whit537 5y ago
      <3 Funny timing, btw. :) https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1431368348886052865 https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1431368348886052865
      - kawsper 5y ago
        You were such an inspiration to me seeing how you were running Gratipay, I only did one PR, but it was so interesting following from the sidelines.
        whit537 5y ago
        <3 Not seeing you at github.com/kawsper so not sure what the PR was ... but thanks for the PR! :)
        kawsper 5y ago
        A tiny, tiny change: https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883 https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883 :)
        whit537 5y ago
        Found it! :D https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883 https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/pull/2883
        whit537 5y ago
        Haha ... jinx! :D