There are, Tipeee is one as the author edited in. > Part of what made Patreon explosively successful, in the first place, was that Patreon had apparently crack

There are, Tipeee is one as the author edited in. > Part of what made Patreon explosively successful, in the first place, was that Patreon had apparently cracked the code on one of the hardest problems on the internet: micropayments. > By the time Patreon had come along people had been discussing the problem of micropayments on the internet for at least two decades. I guess the author missed the years where Flattr buttons were popping up on every website, blog, and even comment ? Flattr 1.0 seems to have been killed by a combination of the 2013 Twitter APIpocalypse, being €-first, and not being based in the Silicon Valley : https://blog.hsnyc.co/post/flattr-works/ https://blog.hsnyc.co/post/flattr-works/ https://thenextweb.com/news/flattr-twitter-payments-ban https://thenextweb.com/news/flattr-twitter-payments-ban Then Flattr 2.0 tried again : https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-24-adblock-plus-relaunches-flattr.html https://www.engadget.com/2017-10-24-adblock-plus-relaunches-... And I doubt that Flattr was even the first to do the "bundling" trick, heck this is probably also what made the Minitel so successful ? But as you can see it works in the opposite way : the patrons set a specific sum of money to be distributed each month, which then gets redistributed depending on their engagement with some or other creator (which you can decide to manually boost).