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This looks pretty cool, thanks for doing that. I hope you'll manage to extend revenue share scheme. I would appreciate a bit more info about that revenue share

by phh 4y ago

This looks pretty cool, thanks for doing that. I hope you'll manage to extend revenue share scheme. I would appreciate a bit more info about that revenue share scheme (like is photoprism getting 1c/user/month and it's just ""floss-washing"", or is it more? or maybe without showing an actual value, showing photoprims's developer opinion on whether they think the revenue share is fair would be nice) Even though this clearly target FLOSS-friendly users, which are already aware of stuff, they don't necessarily know all the floss services. So my recommendation would be to make an additional, more opinionated pod page (but I've never made a product in my life, so my advice is probably not worth much): - Show ""competing"" proprietary services in front of the pods, for people to maybe better understand what it is about - Make a subset list of ""recommended"" services, photoprism/photoview are redundant, developer/sysadmin stuff should probably not be listed, pick just one RSS aggregator (I personally use TinyTinyRSS which has a great Android appif I can add my own grain of salt) Thanks for the product and I wish you good luck

m3nu 4y ago
I won't share the precise % for each project, but the FAQ at the bottom of the page gives a hint. More than 1ct. Every project is encouraged to link to PikaPods if they think it's fair enough. Or if they want it as hosting option for their users. Hoping to expand FOSS financing over time. The revenue share won't be enough, I think. So I want an optional sponsorship option to directly support the project. And maybe get a direct line to developers with this. Still early days for this. I do know that people are willing to pay for the FOSS they use when it's convenient and when they already pay for something. Our other service, https://www.borgbase.com/ https://www.borgbase.com/ has shown this and we collect significant amounts there to support upstream development. Also keep in mind that many projects aren't ready to receive payments. Either the authorship is unclear (forked many times), they can't/won't issue invoices, just don't want payment categorically.
- irq-1 4y ago
  If you look for foundations that service projects, like https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ it could be easier to connect.

by phh 4y ago

m3nu 4y ago

I won't share the precise % for each project, but the FAQ at the bottom of the page gives a hint. More than 1ct. Every project is encouraged to link to PikaPods if they think it's fair enough. Or if they want it as hosting option for their users. Hoping to expand FOSS financing over time. The revenue share won't be enough, I think. So I want an optional sponsorship option to directly support the project. And maybe get a direct line to developers with this. Still early days for this. I do know that people are willing to pay for the FOSS they use when it's convenient and when they already pay for something. Our other service, https://www.borgbase.com/ https://www.borgbase.com/ has shown this and we collect significant amounts there to support upstream development. Also keep in mind that many projects aren't ready to receive payments. Either the authorship is unclear (forked many times), they can't/won't issue invoices, just don't want payment categorically.

irq-1 4y ago
If you look for foundations that service projects, like https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ https://sfconservancy.org/projects/current/ it could be easier to connect.